Global Languages 6-12: French 1

French 1 will serve as a preface to the French language and French culture. Homeschool students will develop reading and speaking skills as well as listening and speaking skills needed to advance to the next level of proficiency. Homeschoolers will look at the elementary elements of the French language to develop basic communication skills in the language. Homeschool students will learn the basics, beginning with an overview of the language and translation, and will then continue to learning nouns and gender, vowels and consonantal sounds, conjugating verbs, making plurals, and more.

1. The Translation Myth

2. Nouns and Gender

3. Vowel and Consonantal Sounds

4. Identity Sentences with Être

5. Making Plurals

6. Adjectives and Agreement

7. Colors and Clothing

8. Using Avoir and Faire

9. Basic Negative Form

10. Cardinal Numbers

11. Indefinite Articles

12. Expressing Dimensions

13. Expressing Time

14. Regular "ER Verbs

15. The Human Body

16. Asking Questions

17. Positional Expressions

18. Days and Months

19. Culinary Vocabulary

20. The Imperative Form

21. School Subjects and Professions

22. Talking About Family

23. Quantities and Comparisons

24. The Partitive

25. Important Irregular Verbs " pouvoir, falloir, vouloir

26. The Senses and Expressing Feelings

27. Using Adverbs

28. Irregular Adjectives

29. Talking About Geography

30. Regular "IR and "RE Verbs

31. Direct Object Pronouns

32. Possessives and Demonstratives

33. Talking About the Weather

34. Commonly Used Prepositions

35. Traveling and Making Acquaintances

36. Commonly Used Conjunctions

37. Basic Vocabulary of the Information Age

38. Indirect Object Pronouns

39. Landmarks of Paris

40. Several videos episodes in both Flaky, Pastry World of French and French in Action series

41. Cultural readings about Versailles, Jules Verne, and Joan of Arc (in English)

42. Short French reading passages about the (fictional) Dejarnac family