FRENCH I

Overview

Learn basic French grammar to help build your fluency and understanding, and apply what you learn through interactive games, written practice, and listening and speaking exercises.

Major Topics and Concepts

Culture: Paris
The alphabet and pronunciation
Using cognates and borrowed words to build French vocabulary
Greetings, asking for names, and providing your name
Question words: asking and responding to questions
Numbers 1-1000
How you are and where you are from
Classroom objects
Definite and indefinite articles
Where French is spoken
Why study French
Culture: Train travel in France
Days of the week, months of the year, dates
Culture: Holidays of the French-speaking world
Subject pronouns
Formal vs. informal
Telling time
Talking about likes and dislikes
Using irregular verbs: Être, aller, avoir
Adjectives and adjective agreement
Singular vs. plural nouns
Negation
Culture: French-speaking Africa
Talking about family members
Occupations and employment possibilities for French-speakers
Culture: Markets and shopping
Talking about your city
Possessive adjectives
Expressing needs
Talking about clothing and colors
Using Avoir expressions
Culture: Strasbourg
Talking about communities
Culture: Carcassone
Review telling time
Transportation
Entertainment vocabulary
Using être a
Er verbs
The prepositions à and de
Culture: Weather in France
Describing weather
Culture: Nice, the French Alps
Activities for different seasons
Culture: The Eiffel Tower
Using the irregular verb Faire
Disagreeing with negative questions and statements using si
Talking about the future using aller + an infinitive
Disjunctive pronouns
Culture: Northwestern France
Talking about leisure activities and sports
Culture: Astérix
IR verbs
Irregular adjectives
Demonstrative adjectives
Talking about countries and nationalities
Culture: Quebec
Using irregular –Ir verbs
Interrogatives
Culture: French-speaking Asian countries
Re verbs