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Curriculum Map 2006-2007
The Dwight School

Advanced French / Grades 6-8 (Bentley House)

 

 

 
Period  Content  Purpose/ Objectives  Activities & Resources  Areas of Interaction  Assessments 
September

(No Unit Name)   Passe compose with avoir & etre.

 

Students will learn how to express actions in the past
 

Reading & listening to accounts of peoples' activities.
Describing own activities
 

How can we express the past?
Who were some famous Frnch people and what did they do?(Homo Faber)
 

Formative:
Creating accounts- oral & written
Quizzes on verbs

Summative:
Presentation of a famous French person.
 


October

(No Unit Name)   Reflexive verbs in present & in passe compose with etre,especially verbs of feeling
The verb "manquer"
 

Students will learn how to give opinions, how to say how they feel physically & mentally, how to express what they miss.
 

Dialogues about how people feel, about what they think and about what they miss.
 

How can we express our feelings?
How can we make ourselves feel better?
What is a good lifestyle? (soc.ed)
 

Formative:
Q&A on how you feel.
Vocab quizzes
Verb quizzes
Summative:
Presentation of a healthy life style:healthy eating and exercising
 


November

(No Unit Name)   Imperfect tense
 

Students will learn how to express regular actions & habits in the past.
 

Reading and listening to accounts of peoples'pasts.
Describing own routine and past.
 

How can we describe our past/childhood?
What was life like back in the times of the "chateaux"?
 

Formative:
Oral & written accounts of the past
Quizzes of the formation of the imperfect and its usage.
Summative:
Presentation of life in a chateau.
 


December

(No Unit Name)   Fairy tales and folklore
 

Students will learn how to recognise different writing styles.
 

Reading different fairy tales and folklore tales.
Reading a Maupassant short story. "La Parure".
 

What is a "genre'?
 

Formative:
Writing own fairy tale.
Re-writing a fairy tale in a different style, such as journalist.
 


January

(No Unit Name)   Saying what is wrong with oneself
 

To talk about how one feels, using "avoir" expressions and adjectives with"etre", giving advice on how to feel better
 

Listening and reading about people's health and physical fitness
 

How do we keep healthy?
 


 


February

(No Unit Name)   Nutrition
 

To talk about why we should eat different foods
To use "il faut"/ "on devrait"....
 

Research project on healthy eating
Reading articles in books and from the internet
Oral and written presentations
 

Why is it necessary to have a balanced diet?( health & social ed)
 

Quizzes
Written exercises
 


March

(No Unit Name)   Adjectives
 

Students will review adjective agreements, using adjectives of feeling
Students will review passe compose to explain why people feel the way that they do.
 

Reading and listening
Written explanations
 

Why do we experience different emotions (health & soc ed)
 

Voab quizzes
Verb quizzes
 


April

(No Unit Name)   Use of imperfect/ passe compose
Compound sentences, using both tenses
 

Students will learn to set the scene,using the imperfect and relate the action, using the passe compose
 

Reading
Listening
Role play with question and answers in both tenses
 

How do we express events that have happened?
 

Verb quizzes
 


May

(No Unit Name)   Story telling, using the past tenses already learnt, using sequencing adverbs
 

To be able to write and speak of an account that happened
 

Oral and presentations
Questions and answers
 

What makes a good story/report/ (ATL)
 

Quizzes
 


June

(No Unit Name)   Review of year's work
 


 


 


 


 


Updated: Wednesday, September 28, 2005
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Curriculum Map 2003-2004 «Previous Year  

The Dwight School
Advanced French / Grades 6-8 (Bentley House)

Period Content Purpose/ Objectives Activities & Resources Essential Questions Assessments
September Passe compose with avoir & etre.

Students will learn how to express actions in the past
Reading & listening to accounts of peoples' activities.
Describing own activities
How can we express the past?
Who were some famous Frnch people and what did they do?(Homo Faber)
Formative:
Creating accounts- oral & written
Quizzes on verbs

Summative:
Presentation of a famous French person.


October Reflexive verbs in present & in passe compose with etre,especially verbs of feeling
The verb "manquer"
Students will learn how to give opinions, how to say how they feel physically & mentally, how to express what they miss.
Dialogues about how people feel, about what they think and about what they miss.
How can we express our feelings?
How can we make ourselves feel better?
What is a good lifestyle? (soc.ed)
Formative:
Q&A on how you feel.
Vocab quizzes
Verb quizzes
Summative:
Presentation of a healthy life style:healthy eating and exercising


November Imperfect tense
Students will learn how to express regular actions & habits in the past.
Reading and listening to accounts of peoples'pasts.
Describing own routine and past.
How can we describe our past/childhood?
What was life like back in the times of the "chateaux"?
Formative:
Oral & written accounts of the past
Quizzes of the formation of the imperfect and its usage.
Summative:
Presentation of life in a chateau.


December Fairy tales and folklore
Students will learn how to recognise different writing styles.
Reading different fairy tales and folklore tales.
What is a "genre'?
Formative:
Writing own fairy tale.
Re-writing a fairy tale in a different style, such as journalist.


January


February


March


April


May


June