Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Produce appropriate vocabulary in target language. Create and understand short descriptive sentences using the present tense, “passé composé”, “imparfait”, future, and conditional tenses.
• Demonstrate knowledge of parts of speech (to show vocabulary recognition, to classify verbs, decline nouns, describe nouns, and identify cognates, show noun adjective and noun verb agreement).
• Recognize meaning (use vocabulary in context, accurately translate on exams and quizzes and in class
• Demonstrate reading comprehension by answering comprehension questions orally and in writing after reading a passage in the target language, make educated guesses, by using cognates and context, about the meaning of a passage.
• Demonstrate listening ability by answering comprehension questions in writing both in English and in the target language after listening to an oral presentation, or hearing oral questions
• Demonstrate speaking ability in the target language by responding correctly during a prompted dialogue and creating original oral dialogues through role plays and monologues
• Demonstrate writing ability in the target language by creating grammatically correct sentences, short descriptive paragraphs, short stories or short plays, and writing summary sentences from readings.
• Use a dictionary and other tools for correct oral and written production of target language.
• Specifically:
• Use the “passé composé” and “imparfait” together, choosing the correct tense.
• Use the indirect object pronouns, “y”, “en”, and stressed pronouns
• Use the two verbs for to know correctly ( “savoir, connaître”)
• Use more irregular verbs in the present tense. Specifically: “ suivre, vivre, ouvrir, courir, rire”
• Use the correct preposition or no preposition before the infinitive.
• Create adverbs from adjectives.
• Use vocabulary to talk about love, marriage, and the human body.
• Use verbs with pronouns: “verbes pronominaux”
• Use the future and conditional tenses appropriately
• Use the relative pronouns “qui, que” and “dont”
• Use comparisons with adjectives, adverbs, and nouns.
• Use interrogative pronouns
• Use indefinite pronouns.
• WRITE
• short grammatically correct sentences
• short descriptive paragraphes
• READ
• authentic articles, stories, cultural notes,
• SPEAK
• present tense conjugating
• LISTEN
• Use the 4 major language acquisition skills:
• Reading
• Writing
• Speaking
• Listening
• apply learned structures to everyday situations
• show knowledge of the variety of “go around it” process of fluency
• languages aren’t direct translations of English
• develop a tolerance for frustration, and will be able to take chances
• practice skills which will allow successful students to move from the acquisitive/passive to the productive/active use of language
• master the efficient use of materials