French A1

TEACHING UNIT 1. LEXICAL-SEMANTIC CONTENT

1. Personal introduction. Forms of address and greeting.
2. Vocabulary related to the classroom and computers.
3. Personal/everyday objects.
4. Human and Social Relationships. The Family.
5. Countries, nationalities.
6. Everyday activities.
7. Vocabulary Related to Leisure. Sports.
8. Travel. Accommodations (furniture and equipment).
9. The city (shops and services).
10. Means of transportation.
11. Location, movement actions.
12. The date, the months of the year, the seasons.
13. The weather.
14. The world of work; professions and roles within a company; sectors of activity.
15. Food, cooking.
16. Clothing and accessories.
17. Email addresses.
18. Common phrases in emails.
19. Telephone Phrases.
20. The numbers.
21. Weight (kilogram…), measurements (meter…), quantities.
22. Common expressions for the functions covered (allô, çà va, voilà, s’il vous plaît, avec plaisir, désolé, excusez-moi…)
23. Related fields of the topics covered.
24. Common synonyms and antonyms.
25. Commonly Used Interjections.
26. Abbreviations, initialisms, and acronyms.
27. False friends.

TEACHING UNIT 2. GRAMMAR TOPICS

1. Prayer
2. Nouns and Adjectives
3. Determinants
4. Pronouns
5. Verbs
6. Adverbs and Phrases
7. Conjunctions/Prepositions

TEACHING UNIT 3. SPELLING CONTENT

1. Copy common words related to dates, times, prices, etc., and expressions about everyday topics.
2. Spell out individual words related to your identity, physical description, phone number, and nationality.
3. Graphical representation of phonemes and sounds.
4. Write short phrases that are relatively phonetically accurate (though not necessarily orthographically accurate) using short words as they are used in spoken language.
5. Write while observing subject-verb agreement and agreement between gender and the noun and noun phrase.
6. Punctuation marks.
7. Question marks and exclamation points.
8. Auxiliary symbols (accents, cedilla, apostrophe, umlaut, short hyphen “trait d’union”).
9. Capitalization of proper nouns and nationalities.
10. Commonly used symbols: @, €.

TEACHING UNIT 4. PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL CONTENT

1. The pronunciation of the letters of the alphabet.
2. Vowels, consonants, semivowels, and semiconsonants.
3. The “silent e.”.
4. The pronunciation of final consonants.
5. “Liaisons.”.
6. Interrogative and negative intonation.
7. The masculine and feminine forms of adjectives.
8. Verbal Distinction Between Masculine and Feminine.
9. ”Elision.”.
10. The stress and rhythm of the sentence.

TEACHING UNIT 5. SOCIOLINGUISTIC AND SOCIOCULTURAL CONTENT

1. Greetings (“Bonjour Madame, Bonjour Monsieur…”).
2. The Use of "tú" and "usted.".
3. Phrases for extending invitations, expressing gratitude, and apologizing.
4. Common phrases used in emails and on the phone.

TEACHING UNIT 6. FUNCTIONAL CONTENT

1. Using Everyday Expressions from French Class.
2. To approach someone and ask for something.
3. To get to know someone.
4. To introduce oneself / to find out about someone's identity / to introduce someone.
5. Saying hello / saying goodbye / saying thank you / apologizing.
6. Ask them to repeat it, spell it out, explain it, or speak more slowly.
7. Requesting and providing personal information.
8. Schedule an appointment (confirm / move up / postpone / cancel).
9. To congratulate / To express a wish.
10. Invite / Offer: Decline, Accept, Thank You
11. Ask for and provide explanations about routines, habits, and schedules.
12. To ask for and give news about someone.
13. Talking about their tastes.
14. Talk about their projects.
15. Ask for information about places / Describe places.
16. Ask for information about people / Describe people.
17. Asking for information about things / Describing things.
18. Ask for/Give directions, an itinerary.
19. Request information or assistance.
20. Counting: asking and telling the time, schedules, prices, stating the date
21. Expressing Quantities and Measurements
22. To go shopping; to purchase a good or service.
23. Talk about different modes of transportation and be able to use them.
24. Make a reservation at a restaurant.
25. Ordering at a restaurant.
26. To express agreement, disagreement, or lack of knowledge.
27. To express an opinion, a wish, or an intention to do or not do something.
28. Share information about routines, habits, preferences, plans, and decisions.
29. Describe physical sensations: cold, heat.
30. Expressing attitudes or feelings in certain situations: joy, sadness, tiredness, anger…
31. Describe a person or a thing.
32. To express an obligation to do something, or a prohibition.
33. To ask for or give instructions on how to do something, or to suggest it.
34. To ask for or provide information or help regarding something.
35. To ask for an explanation or clarification about something.
36. To ask for permission to do something.
37. Invite someone / Accept / Decline
38. Suggest doing something
39. Describe experiences, actions, and projects related to past, present, and future events.

TEACHING UNIT 7. DISCURSIVE CONTENT

1. Starting and ending a conversation.
2. Connectives used to organize the text and provide context in terms of time and place (alors, d’abord, ensuite, enfin…).
3. Some simple discourse connectors such as «and,» «or,» «because,» and “but”
4. Politely interrupt to ask for a repeat.