• MVCC French 191 Time Line  2023-2024

    *Timeline is approximate

    Grammar text: Reprise

    Culture text: Trésor du Temps

     

    Unit 1:                        MAJOR TENSES AND PRONOUNS

     

    Sept 7- Sept 29:          Passé Composé vs. Imperfect

                                        Use of Direct/ Indirect/ Reflexive Objects, y and en

    with the Past tenses

    Culture 1:Du passé mysterieux aux divisions d’aujourd’hui (1-5)

    La France, ses provinces et ses départements (6-10)

    L’art préhistorique  (22-23)

     

    Oct 2- Oct 20              Future/ Conditional/ Imperative Tenses

                                        Use of Direct/ Indirect/ Reflexive Objects, y and en

    with these 3 tenses

    Culture 2: 

    De la Gaule au Moyen- Âge (25-31)

    La litterature gauloise (32-36)

    L’humour gallo-romain –ASTERIX  (50-51)

     

    Oct 23 – Nov 21         Present Indicative and Present Subjunctive Tenses

                                        Use of Direct/ Indirect/ Reflexive Objects, y and en

    with these tenses

    Culture 3: 

    Une sombre période mais de grands hommes (53- 59)

    Croisades, Cathédrales et Calamités (85-91)

    Littérature du Moyen-Âge (60-66)

    La Farce de Maître Pathelin // Villon (92- 104)

    L’Art du Moyen- Âge  (116-117)

     

    Nov 27- Dec 8            Verb Charts with 6 major tenses

                                        Summation writing activities with all tenses

    Culture 4: 

    La France en Transformation: les Grandes Découvertes du siècle XV (119-124)

    Rabelais, Montaigne, Ronsard (125-136)

    L’Art de la Renaissance (148-149)

     

    Dec 11-22                   Final Project: Create a Fairy Tale                   

     

     

     

    Unit 2:                        ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS AND PERFECT TENSES

     

    Jan 2-5                         Adjectives: form and placement used in all tenses

     

    Jan 8-12                       Possessive Adjectives/ Demonstrative Adjectives/

    Interrogative Adjectives (Quel) / Comparatives / Superlatives

    throughout all the tenses

     

     

    Jan 16-19                      Fairy Tale Modifications

    Adverbs of time, place, manner