1. They will present and describe themselves in the present tense

2. They will collect pictures of their vacation and label the pictures with descriptions

of locations and actions in the past tense

3. They will talk about their academic and athletic life (courses, friends, teachers, sports...) in the present and past tenses

4. They will talk about their likes and dislikes in the present and past tenses

5. They will talk about their wishes in life in the conditional tense

Semaine du 15 au 19 decembr

• 1. Pendleton Life at the passe Compose Tense + Use of reflexive verbs at "the passe compose" Tense
• 2. King and Queens in Europe in the XVII Century - Family Tree-
• OR: Marie Antoinette in Versailles as a Queen and in Le Petit Trianon as a peasant - Habits - Routine - Clothes - Daily life at L'Imparfait
• Use of Possessive adjectives & vocabulary related to relative s
• Use of a new past tense: Imperfect (L'Imparfait de l'Indicatif)
• Comparison: The passe Compose versus L'Imparfait

Passez de bonnes vacances et revenez en pleine forme!

N'oubliez pas de reviser pour les examens qui se derouleront du mercredi 7 Janvier au 9 janvier inclus.

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Annee 2009

Deuxieme Semestre / Premier Quarter

Report cards: 12 janvier

Progress Reports: 11 Fevrier

Semaine 20: du 5 au 9 janvier 2009

- Review for midterm exams

- Take Midterm Exams: le jeudi 8 janvier. Bonne chance!

Semaine21: du 12 au 16 janvier 2009

Students will:

- Review Direct object pronouns

- Learn and practice Indirect Object Pronouns me, te, lui, leur, nous, vous

- Learn the location of D.O.and I.O. pronouns in sentences in the present tense and passe compose tense

Semaine 22: du 19 au 23 j an vier 2009

Students will:

- Learn how to tell people what to do using the imperative form

- Learn how to explain a minor illness to a doctor using "avoir mal a" & "souffrir"

- Learn how to have a prescription filled at the pharmacy   using the imperative form

- Learn how to use the pronoun "en" when referring to people, places, and things already mentioned

Semaine 23: du 26 au 30 janvier 2009

Students will:

- Write a 30 sentence- essay in the Passe Compose tense describing the picture "In the Doctor's Waiting Room"  -

- Read & translate Lectures Culturelles " Une consultation" p.52 in TB using the reading strategy "Identifying important concepts" 

- Discuss medical services in France versus in America

- Obtain and provide information and engage in conversations about their personal health

- Speaking and Listening Comprehension Tests on January 30th

Semaine 24: du 2 au 6 fevrier 2009  

Students will:

- Learn how to use the personal pronoun "en" when referring to people, places, and things already mentioned

- Write and act out a skit between a doctor and a patient using vocabulary/grammar (personal pronoun "en") from lesson

- Translate Conversation "Chez le medecin"

- Learn more about the French Health System (Lectures Supplementaires 1 & 2 p. 54-55 in TB)

Semaine 25/26: du 9 au 20 fevrier

Students will:

- Learn how to talk about computers, e-mail, the internet, faxes, and telephones using habitual and continuous actions in the

Imparfait tense

- Talk about what they liked to do (routine actions) in the Imparfait

- Talk about their mental or emotional states in the Imparfait

Semaine 27: du 23 au 27 fevrier

Students will:

- Take a quiz on the pronouns (DO, IO, Stress, en, and y) and the imparfait tense versus the passe compose tense (lundi 23 fevrier)

- Write an expositary 40-sentence essay in the imparfait using the following categories:

Date, Characters, Location, Characters' Physical or emotional description, Attitudes, Whishes, Routine actions

- Speaking Test (vendredi 27 fevrier)

--> Describe the picture p. 94 at the office in the Imparfait and passe compose tense

Semaine 28: du 2 au 6 mars

Students will:

- Communicate about train and plane travel

- Distinguish between local and long distance trains, modern & old fashion trains, services

on trains and airplanes, and boarding and disembarking from planes

- Learn about "venir" and the prepositions used with geographic names.

Semaine 29: du 9 au 13 mars

As part of the National Foreign Language Week, students will:

- Use Culture Grams in Proquest in order to create projects about: French Idiomatic expressions,

tongue-twisters, interesting facts, proverbs...

- Create a Trivia game related to French Culture, expressions, and grammar

- Create signs in different languages related to the subject areas taught at Pendleton

Semaine 30: du 16 au 20 mars

- Review the verbs related to movements (partir, revenir, rentrer, aller, arriver, retourner...) and

the prepositions & contractions

- Continue to learn the differences between the imperfect tense and the passe compose tense

- Communicate in spoken & written French on the following topic:

--> Traveling on board a train, Services on board an airplane, Arriving at an airport, Geography

--> The activities will cover a range of difficulty which will allow individualized instruction.

Semaine 31: du 23 au 27 mars

Students will:

Mardi 24 mars

- Read a Herald Tribume article about Dan Miller's biography and about one of his article "Things to watch in Washington"

posted in the Herald Tribune Newspaper

- Attend a conference by Congressman Dan Miller in the Mental Conditioning Room

- Write a summary about Dan Miller's biography in French in the past tenses

(Imparfait + Passe Compose)

Jeudi 26 et vendredi 27 mars

- Work on a Power Point Project Presentation: - 20 slides with at least 3 sentences per slide -

Deadline: Friday 27 mars at the end of the class - Use of past tenses & present tense

- Present their project to the class

Topic:

"Choisissez un pays francophone que vous voulez visister un jour. Trouvez des renseignements sur ce pays dans une encyclopedie, sur internet (Proquest), etc. Ensuite, dites pourquoi vous voulez visister ce pays, comment vous l'imaginez...

Vous pouvez aussi ecrire un email a une agence de voyage pour demander tous les renseignements necesssaires: quelles villes visiter, en quelle saison, quels vetements prendre,etc."

Semaine 32: du 30 mars au 3 avril:

Students will:

- Work on the dialogue "Une rencontre a Paris" between Steffi and Mark 

- Get a feel for when to use the imparfait or the passe compose by rewriting the verbs

in the dialogue in one tense or the other  

- Take notes on the pronoms relatifs "qui, que."

- Answer whether the relative pronoun "qui" or "que" in each sentence functions as the subject

or the object of the clause in the following dialogue's sentences:

line 1: ... je crois que....

line 3: ... quelqu'un qui aime...

line 4: ...je crois bien que...

line 5: ...J'ai l'impression que ce n'est pas ici que je vous ai vu...

- Act out the skit with a classmate & work on pronunciation

- Fill out hand-outs with "qui" or "que" & do ex. in TB p. 151/152

PASSEZ  DE  BONNES  VACANCES  DE  "SPRING BREAK" ou "DE  PAQUES"

ET

REVENEZ  EN  SUPER  FORME!

(Du 6 au 19 avril)

Semaine 33: du 20 au 24 avril

 Students will:

- Review the relative pronouns: qui/que

- Learn how to communicate with postal and bank clerks, write letters, address an enveloppe in French

- Compare & discuss American postal services to those of French post offices.

- Learn the agreement of the past participle with the helping verb "avoir"

Semaine 34: du 27 Avril au 1er Mai:

Students will:

-Take a test on pronouns, Imparfait & Passe Compose, & ther relative pronouns "qui & que"

- Learn about exchanging money and carrying out simple banking transactions

- Learn about the rate exchanges of the French, Canadian, and American currencies

- Learn about "Le conseil de l'Europe in Strasbourg" & research the aims and achievements

of the Council

- Learn about "Les Livrets de la Caisse d'Epargne"

- Play the role of the tellers / customers engaging in various bank transactions with money,

copied checks, travelers' checks (realia)

- Learn about the celebration of the 1er Mai et "Le Muguet"

Semaines 35-36: Du 4 mai au 15 Mai

Students will:

- Write, learn and act out a dialogue between a banker and a client using slang expressions related to money.

--> Work on the following critical Thinking Activity: (Supporting statements with reasons)

"A ton avis, il est important ou pas de mettre de l'argent de cote, de faire des economies? Pourquoi?"

"A ton avis, il est important ou pas de devenir riche? Pourquoi?"  

- Analyze their spending habits: Take the test "Vous etes comme la cigale ou la fourmi?

- Learn how to use reciprocal actions using reflexive pronouns and reciprocal verbs

in the passe compose tense with "etre"

- Learn the negative expressions "personne...ne" and "rien...ne" answering the questions

"Quelqu'un est/a +past participle...?", "Queque chose est/a + past participle...?

" Qu'est ce qui se passe?", "Qu'est ce qui est arrive?"

Semaines 37-38: du 18 au 29 mai:

- Discuss the movie "Les Visiteurs"

- Write a summary of it in the past tenses

- Learn the conditional mood (si je + imparfait, je + conditional mood)

- Review & practice oral questions related to students' athletic, academic and personal lives in:

the present tense, the past tenses (passe compose - Imparfait), the future tenses,

and the conditional mood.

- Reviews for the final exam which will be held on June 2d.

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Bonne Annee a tous!













































































































































Semaine 19: du 5 au 9 janvier 2009






































































- review for midterm exams






































































- Take midterm exams on Thursday 8th 













































































































































Semaine 20: du 12 au 16 janvier 2009