World Languages Department

Essential knowledge and Skills:

Students in French III Honors further develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in French. Students study the French language with a strong emphasis on communication. Students are encouraged to participate in the learning process through presentations, group work and interaction.

Indicators of Student learning:

Upon completion of this course, students will:

• Feel confident speaking in target language about themselves and others.

• Feel confident reading a short passage in French

• Utilize cognates and scan for main information when encountering a new text or listening to a new passage.

• Use present, past, future and conditional verb tenses.

• Be familiar with French contemporary events and personalities

• Start having the ‘feel” for the language

• Be confident in a French-speaking environment.

Communication

• Communicate their thoughts in target language

• Explain major points of grammar in target language

• Give information about key figures in French speaking world in target language

• Recite longer poems in French

• Recognize some music from French speaking world

Technology

• Continue using Internet to research specific topics

• Navigate French search engines

• Find weather in any area in French speaking world

• Recognize headlines in French speaking papers on line

Assessment:

Upon completion of this course, students will:

• Participate in the National French Contest

• Evaluate their own performance by comparison to their performance on the previous year’s contest.

• Evaluate their own performance by comparison to the performance of students in the state of Utah, as well as nationally.

• Be confident in a French-speaking environment.

• Communicate with a native speaker and classmate in target language.

• Exchange emails with French speaking correspondent.