French Intermediate 2/3

Subject Area
Credits 1
Prerequisites

French Intermediate 2: Completion of French Intermediate 1

French Intermediate 3: Completion of French Intermediate 2 

Prerequisite Courses
Home Learning
Moderate
Course Description

In the French Intermediate 2 and Intermediate 3 courses, students will explore the French and Francophone world through the following units: A Teenagers’ Life, Family and Relationships, Future Projects and Dreams, School Community, Leisure Time, Media, Traditions and Customs, and Holidays. They will develop language skills toward the Intermediate Mid level of proficiency. The students will continue to develop their interpretive interpersonal and presentational communication with authentic texts. They will apply new vocabulary and language functions gained from various authentic materials to further develop their language proficiency by asking and answering follow-up questions, exchanging information, making conversations, dealing with familiar situations, and discussing and collaborating in group settings. Students will demonstrate what they can do through a variety of real-life related tasks. Intermediate 2 and 3 provides students an opportunity to fully develop their communication skills to the level of Intermediate Mid according to ACTFL standards in a period of two years if needed. They will be awarded 1 credit for the successful completion of a one-year study.

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

  • Describe relationships.
  • Evaluate friendship and the value of having friends.
  • Discuss daily routines in the present, future and past.
  • Discuss options for future careers and plans.
  • Advise, discuss and plan travel arrangements in the Francophone world and make recommendations.
  • Relate past experiences and talk about childhood and the way life used to be for student and others.
  • Describe the local area and its advantages and challenges.
  • Relate events and plans in the present, future and past.
  • Discuss current problems facing the planet.
  • Make comparisons.
Grades
9,
10,
11,
12
Grading Scheme
Standards-based Course