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World Language
World Language Courses
French 1 French 3
Grades 9-12 Grades 10-12
Course Number 513 Course Number 515
Full Year Course - 1 credit Full Year Course - 1 credit
Prerequisite: None Prerequisite: French 2
Estimated Fee: $12.00 Estimated Fee: $12.00
Recommended For: College Bound Recommended For: College Bound
Career: A,B,E,F,H,P Career: A,B,E,F,H,P
French 1 begins the study to understand and
speak French as well as to read and write the French 3 continues to emphasize all four
target language. Basic grammatical structures phases of language study. By the end of the
are taught. Activities include the drilling of year, the students will have completed the
French sound, the learning of vocabulary, verb study of most of the major points of
tenses, and grammatical structures leading to grammar of the language. There is still
free conversation, oral, and written drills, and great emphasis on building vocabulary.
an introduction to French civilization and More emphasis is placed on writing as well
culture. Successful study of foreign languages as on speaking (planned and
can lead to varied career opportunities, extemporaneous) on a wide number of
especially in business fields. It is suggested subjects pertaining to the lives of the
that a student taking a world language should students. The class reads its first complete
be doing satisfactory work in English classes. book. (Honors curriculum will be available.
Please see your counselor and/or your
French 2 World Language teacher for details.)
Grades 9-12
Course Number 514 French 4 Honors
Full Year Course - 1 credit Grades 11-12
Prerequisite: French 1 Course Number 519
Estimated Fee: $16.00 Full Year Course - 1 credit
Recommended For: College Bound Prerequisite: French 3 and Recommendation
Career: A,B,E,F,H,P Estimated Fee: $55.00
Recommended For: College Bound
French 2 builds on and continues the Career: A,B,E,F,H,P
development of the four basic skills
introduced in French 1: listening, speaking, This course is designed to give the students
reading, and writing. The student learns an introduction to French history and
new vocabulary words, new tenses, and literature, to review grammar, to enable
other basic grammatical structures. This them to read with understanding, and to
knowledge is applied in written and oral express themselves. In their text, the
work such as essays, skits, short speeches, students study French history. They then
and daily classroom conversation. Each unit study literature in relation to the period of
discusses a phase of French culture. history in which the works were written.
There is a successive review of structure,
especially of verbs. The students are
encouraged to discuss the material studied as
well as any other matters which interest
them in order to facilitate their use of the
language.
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