Curriculum Map 2006-2007      

The Dwight School
French 4 / Grade 4 (Primary Years Program)  

Content  Purpose/ Objectives  Activities/ Assessments  Resources 
Architecture 
(Week 1, 3 Weeks)
Names of buildings
Dates
Maps, especially of Paris.
Addresses
Countries
Grammar: verb "habiter"
 

To learn the names of different buildings in a town.
To learn how to give your address.
To learn how to say when something was built.
To learn the names of different countries in French.
 

Reading articles.
Looking at plans of a town.
Drawing a plan of one's street.
Listening to directions.
Dialogues
Sentence building with"habiter"
 

Alex et Zoe 2 Unite 12
Le nouvel Espaces 1 Dossier 4
French for beginners Workbook pages 5, 18, 19
Video: Visages de la France: 5,Ca, c'est Paris
Usbourne: Chateaux, Cathedrales et Pyramides
 


Questions 
(Week 4, 4 Weeks)
Question forms: qui, que, comment, ou etc
 

To learn/review basic question forms
 

Question/answer sessions
Dialogues
Question marathons
 

Alex et Zoe 2
 


Weather 
(Week 8, 5 Weeks)
Revision of weather expressions.
Beaufort wind scale.
Revision of numbers.

 

To learn how to talk about the weather in French in present and past tenses.
 

Listening exercises.
Reading.
Acting out the wind scale with charades.
Keeping weather journal in French.
 

Alex et Zoe 2 Unite 5
Internet websites for the actual weather.
La meteorologie: Le vent
 


Calendars 
(Week 13, 3 Weeks)
Revision of days and months.
Poems about the seasons and weather.
 

To revise dates and days and months.
To read some French poetry.
 

Reading poetry.
reciting poetry .
Listening to poetry.
 

Various anthologies of poetry.
 


Publishing 
(Week 16, 4 Weeks)
Publishing houses.
Producing a publication.
Prepositions.
 

To find out the name of some French publishers.
To learn how to put a page into print.
To learn how to say where things are on a page and elsewhere.
 

Looking at French books to find the publisher
Making a page for the holiday calendar with poetry and illustrations.
Preposition exercises.
Hide and Seek.
 

Dokeo p344 Un livre, ca se fait comment?
Alex et Zoe Unite14
 


Religions 
(Week 20, 4 Weeks)
Vocabulary about religions
Countries
Large numbers(thousands/millions)

 

To learn the names of different religions
To review countries
To practice using large numbers

 

Reading articles
Question/answer

 

Dokeo
 


Constitution 
(Week 24, 3 Weeks)
The birth of the French Republic.
Voting in France.
Election of presidents.
Grammar: Use of "Vous" form.
 

To look at the French constitution.
To start asking questions , using the "Vous" form.
 

Reading.
Voting.
Asking and answering questions.
 

Alex et Zoe 3 Unite 1
 


Francophonie 
(Week 27, 3 Weeks)
Countries
Grammar: en/au with country
verb:parler
 

To talk about different counties where French is spoken
To learn where they are situated
 

Map work
Speaking about the different countries
Written exercises with en/au
 

Alex et Zoe 3 Unite 2
 


Water 
(Week 30, 5 Weeks)
Vocabulary on water: rivers, lakes etc
La Seine
 

To learn vocabulary concerning water
To learn about the Seine river and where it flows
 

Magazine reading about the Seine
Independent research on water terms
 

Magazine Wapiti: La Seine
Questions/Reponses 3/6 ans: La riviere
L'eau, la terre, l'air, le feu

 


Water cont'd 
(Week 35, 2 Weeks)
As May
 


 


 


 

Updated: Friday, January 05, 2007
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