French

Preschool | Prekindergarten | Kindergarten | Grade One | Grade Two | Grade Three Grade Four | Grade Five | Grade Six | Grade Seven | Grade Eight

Preschool

The children are introduced to French through songs, finger plays, and stories.

Prekindergarten

The children learn French through songs, finger plays, and stories. They develop their vocabulary, listening, and oral skills.

Kindergarten

The children learn French through songs and stories. They further develop their vocabulary, listening, and oral skills.

Grade One

Basic conversation and vocabulary (numbers, greetings, animals, body parts, food, weather, family etc.)

French culture (holidays and traditions, basic French history, food, transportation)

Book:
Let’s Learn French Coloring Book

Grade Two

Basic conversation and vocabulary (numbers, greetings, animals, places in town, food, weather, family etc.)

French culture (holidays and traditions, basic French history, food, transportation)

Book:
The French Culture Coloring Book

Grade Three

Conversation, vocabulary (classroom objects, toys, months, sports, seasons etc.) and writing

Introductory grammar (adjectives, prepositions, introduction to verbs, sentence structure)

Text:
Adventures Level 1, Book 1 (National Textbook Company)

Grade Four

Conversation, vocabulary (clothing, animals, food and drink etc.) and writing

Introductory grammar (adjectives, prepositions, introduction to verbs, sentence structure)

Text:
Adventures Level 1, Book 2 (National Textbook Company)

Grade Five

Conversation, vocabulary (time, nature, health, professions, house, furniture, transportation, instruments etc.)

Writing and grammar, (irregular verbs, negatives, contractions, comparisons, imperative verbs, idiomatic expressions, verb agreement)

Text:
Adventures Book 2 (National Textbook Company)

Grade Six

Conversation, vocabulary and grammar, adverbs, question formation, negatives, prepositions, articles , adverb formation, regular and irregular verbs.

French speaking countries culture study

Text:

Discovering French (Heath) Bleu

Grade Seven

Conversation, vocabulary and grammar, adverbs, negatives, prepositions, articles, present and future tense, adverb formation, direct object pronouns, idiomatic expressions.

French speaking countries culture study

Text:

Discovering French (Heath) Bleu

Grade Eight

Vocabulary:
Nationalities, families, possessions, adjectives, avoir expressions, faire expressions, food quantities

Verbs:
Faire, venir family, passé composé, irregular verb combinations.

Grammar:
Partitive article, indirect and direct object pronouns, possessive adjectives, adjective agreement.

Text:
Discovering French (Heath) Blanc