Textbook & workbook: French in Action (FiA), 1994, Pierre J. Capretz

Leçon 19 (approximate time: 19 days)
Topics covered (in FiA textbook pp. 151-157; workbook pp. 258-270):
1. forming the passé composé
2. compounds of prendre: apprendre, comprendre, entreprendre
3. plaire, present tense and passé composé
4. indirect object pronouns with plaire
5. adverbs ending in –ment
6. telling time
7. school and studies vocabulary
8. avoir, être, aller, parler in present tense, review
9. mise en œuvre questions, textbook p. 157
Quiz – Vocabulary (Leçons 11-18)
Quiz – Vocabulary (Leçon 19)
Quiz – Quelle heure est-il?
Test – Leçon 19
La composition: Le portrait d’Obélix

Leçon 20 (approximate time: 14 days)
Topics covered (in FiA textbook pp. 163-171; workbook pp. 276-287):
1. apologizing & reacting to apologies: excusez-moi, je suis désolé etc.
2. attendre, entendre, réfléchir, choisir, finir, present tense and passé composé
3. mettre, boire, present tense, imperfect, and passé composé
4. se moquer de with stressed pronouns in familiar expressions
5. negatives: ne…jamais, ne… rien, ne…personne when the stimulus is
toujours, quelque chose, or tout le monde/quelqu’un
6. auxiliary avoir with the passé composé
7. object pronouns with the passé composé
8. position of negation with the passé composé
9. commencer, manger, choisir in present tense, review
10. mise en œuvre questions, textbook p. 167
11. Document 7, textbook p. 171
Quiz – Vocabulary (Leçon 20)
Quiz – Document 7, textbook p. 167
Test – Leçon 20

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Leçon 21 (approximate time: 14 days)
Topics covered (in FiA textbook pp. 174-178; workbook pp. 294-305):
1. masculine and feminine forms of adjectives in –el and –al
2. feminine noun endings –tion, -ie
3. faire + infinitive (rire, croire)
4. idiomatic expressions with avoir
5. recevoir and devoir, present tense and passé composé
6. savoir + infinitive
7. s’y mettre
8. passé composé in negative expressions, review
9. agreement of the past participle with avoir in the passé composé
10. servir à in familiar expressions (ça sert à lire, etc.)
11. attendre, se laver, acheter in present tense, review
12. mise en œuvre questions, textbook p. 178
Quiz – Vocabulary (Leçon 21)
Test – Leçon 21

Leçon 22 (approximate time: 18 days)
Topics covered (in FiA textbook pp. 185-194; workbook pp. 312-322):
1. placing a telephone call
2. extending and accepting social invitations
3. ordering at a café
4. requesting, giving, and receiving directions
5. appeler, rappeler
6. passé composé of reflexive verbs
7. past participle agreement of reflexive verbs
8. passé composé of verbs conjugated with avoir and être
9. past participle agreement of verbs conjugated with être
10. appeler, jeter, préférer, essayer in present tense, review
11. mise en œuvre questions, textbook p. 190
12. Documents 4 & 5, textbook pp. 193-194
Quiz - Vocabulary (Leçon 22)
Quiz – passé composé
Quiz – Documents 4 & 5, textbook pp. 193-194
Test – Leçon 22
La composition: Babar et le père Noël

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Video: La tradition religieuse (Noël)

Leçon Supplémentaire (approximate time: 6 days)
Babar et le père Noël (book & video)

Leçon 23 (approximate time: 16 days)
Topics covered (in FiA textbook pp. 196-200; workbook pp. 329-338):
1. uncertainty, anxiety: se demander si, être inquiet(-ète), s’en faire
2. expressions of optimism and pessimism
3. visiting museums
4. walking in Paris
5. requesting, giving, and receiving directions
6. expressing and responding to apologies
7. prendre and compounds
8. the future tense of regular verbs
9. passé composé, review
10. le, la, de, du, de la, des, review
11. boire, conduire, connaître, courir in present tense, review
12. mise en œuvre questions, textbook p. 200
Quiz – Vocabulary (Leçon 23)
Test – Leçon 23
La composition: La jeune fille au chat (de Renoir)
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Lecture: Saint François de Sales

Leçon 24 (approximate time: 22 days)
Topics covered (in FiA textbook pp. 206-219; workbook pp. 345-359):
1. food and drink vocabulary
2. politeness
3. the plus-que-parfait
4. the future of irregular verbs
5. relative pronouns qui and que
6. imperative and personal pronouns, review
7. du, de la, de l’, des, de, d’, en, review
8. croire, devoir, écrire, éteindre in present tense, review
9. mise en œuvre questions, textbook p. 214
10. Documents 6 & 7, textbook pp. 218-219
Quiz – Vocabulary (Leçon 24)
Quiz – future tense
Quiz – Documents 6 & 7, textbook pp. 218-219
Test – Leçon 24

Leçon 25 (approximate time: 15 days)
Topics covered (in FiA textbook pp. 220-228; workbook pp. 364-378):
1. grooming vocabulary (se brosser les dents, se couper les ongles, etc)
2. food and meals vocabulary
3. complaints and criticism
4. the imperative, review, and the imperative with pronouns en and y
5. the imperative with indirect object pronouns, review
6. the partitive en, review, and en and determinatives (un autre, etc.)
7. demonstrative pronouns, review
8. future, review
9. faire, falloir, lire, mettre in present tense, review
10. mise en œuvre questions, textbook p. 225
11. Documents 3 & 4, textbook p. 228
Quiz – Vocabulary (Leçon 25)
Quiz – object pronouns
Quiz – Documents 3 & 4, textbook p. 228
Test – Leçon 25
La composition: Les deux jeunes filles assises (de Renoir)

Leçon 26 (approximate time: 6 days)
Topics covered (in FiA textbook pp. 230-235 only)
1. food and drink vocabulary
2. ordering a meal in a restaurant vocabulary
3. ne…que
4. porter, apporter, rapporter, emporter, remporter
5. definite article versus the partitive
6. en, y, review
7. expressions of quantity: une douzaine de, un kilo de, assez de, etc.
8. endings of the present tense, review
9. endings of the imperative, review
Quiz – Vocabulary (Leçon 26)
Quiz – Verbes (présent)
PowerPoint: La Corse
Document: La Corse
Video: Le train en Corse
Quiz – La Corse

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La chanson: Joe DASSIN, Les Champs-Elysées

Test Final Vocabulary (Leçons 19-26)
Test Final Listening and Writing (Leçons 19-26)