French II

The following learning targets represent the major concepts studied and assessed in this course.

Year Long Course

Unit 1: Review of French I

• Review and use the French alphabet.
• Count and use numbers through 100.
• Use common greetings and goodbyes.
• Introduce oneself and others.
• Ask and answer common classroom questions.
• Use dates and calendar vocabulary.
• Review and apply the verbs être (to be), avoir (to have), aller (to go), and faire (to do/to make).
• Review and conjugate regular -ER verbs.

Unit 2: City & Café

• Identify and use food, café, and city vocabulary.
• Identify and describe modes of transportation.
• Use prepositions in context.
• Form and use the past tense with avoir.
• Form and use the past tense with être.
• Use partitive articles correctly.
• Conjugate and use prendre (to take/to have food).
• Conjugate and use regular -IR verbs.
• Give and follow directions.

Unit 3: Clothing & Shopping

• Identify and use clothing vocabulary.
• Use interrogative adjectives to ask questions.
• Explore Les Sapeurs and their role as fashion creators in Africa.
• Use demonstrative adjectives and demonstrative pronouns.
• Review and apply the past tense.
• Review and use color vocabulary.

Unit 4: À la folie, pas du tout — Film

• Identify and use film-related vocabulary.
• Participate in discussions about the film.
• Create sentences in the target language.

Unit 5: Travel

• Identify and use travel vocabulary.
• Review and apply the verb aller (to go).
• Review weather vocabulary and expressions.
• Use irregular verbs in context.

Unit 6: Housing

• Identify and use house vocabulary.
• Identify and use chore vocabulary.
• Conjugate and use devoir (to have to), vouloir (to want), and pouvoir (to be able to).
• Conjugate and use dormir (to sleep), partir (to leave), and sortir (to go out).
• Form and use the past tense with negation.
• Conjugate and use -YER verbs.