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 â€"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 â€" pouvoir, falloir, vouloir
26. The Senses and Expressing Feelings
27. Using Adverbs
28. Irregular Adjectives
29. Talking About Geography
30. Regular â€"IR and â€"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