French 4

Quarter 1: Impressionist art & literature; Discovering French Rouge, Unit 3: outdoor activities, the natural environment, weather, natural phenomena, passé compose, l’imparfait, passé simple, Classical period, Literature: La Fontaine, Prevert, Rostand. Unit 4: Going shopping and asking for services,; object pronouns, double object pronouns, en, indefinite expressions of quantity, faire + infinitive, the Minitel, classical musicians; other music in the Francophone world.

Quarter 2: The TGV 7 Eurotunnel, French Revolution, Napoleonic Era, La Marseillaise, Victor Hugo: Les Miserables, Unit 6: Sejour en France, deciding where to stay; reserving a room, asking for services in a hotel; comparing people, things and places, lequel, celui, le mien, the Guide Michelin, France in the 20^th; the Maghreb.

Quarter 3: Unit 8: Cities and City Life; making dates, explaining directions, discussing the advantages of city life, pluperfect tense, conditional tense, “si” clauses and past conditional tense: French-speaking Caribbean islands, historical background, literature and film, Cesaire; Rue Cases-Negres. Unit 9: Personal relationships and family life; relative pronouns and clauses, reciprocal and reflexive pronouns, a typical French wedding.

Quarter 4: Western and Central African franchophone world, art and literature. Unit 10: University studies and careers, planning a career, looking for a job, the present participle, explaining the purpose of an action,: Pour + infinitive, Pour que + subjunctive mood; expressions used after the infinitive and subjunctive mood; how important academic success is to French youth, le bac, military service, interviewing for a job, French presence in North America, Canada, and Louisiana, French explorers.