German B - Copenhagen International School

Unit
6
Chez moi
Where I live
ENV
· Where is my home and what is it like
· How do homes differ around the world
Linguistic test (formative)
Reading comprehension (E)
Writing: My school life (C,D)
Speaking: Interview about your
Text Book / Resources: Daniel Bourdais, Sue Finney & Anne Lisa Gordon – Équipe nouvelle
1 – Student’s book & Workbook (Oxford University Press, 2004) plus supplementary materials.
This course is aimed at students who have had no or limited exposure to French. Some students may
arrive with previous knowledge of the language, for example from our 5 th grade introductory course,
but we start at the beginning again to ensure a solid grasp of the material for everyone and to allow
total beginners to follow the class at no disadvantage. All four language areas ­ speaking, listening,
reading and writing ­ are practised, and as far as possible the language is placed within a cultural
context so that the students learn something of France and the French­speaking world. The target
language is used as much as possible in classroom instruction
Students will be assessed continually throughout the year on ATL skills, homework, grammar and
vocabulary tests, pronunciation and listening comprehension but these do not form part of the formal
MYP assessment (in other words, they don’t count directly towards the grade on reports).
Student Expected Learning Outcomes: At the end of the French Level 1 course, students should be able to do
the following:
Speaking and Listening (Criteria A and B)
· introduce themselves and each other, family members in French
· understand basic teacher instructions and use basic classroom language
· make polite requests (in a classroom context)
· ask and answer questions about: pets; school life; the time; hobbies; sports; after school and
leisure activities; daily routine; places to go; food; the weather; where they live; their room
· talk about likes, dislikes and preferences relating to these topics
· express simple opinions and reasons
· describe main physical features and personality traits of a person
· give a brief oral presentation on above topics
· speak with good pronunciation and use correct intonation for questions and statements
Writing (Criteria C and D)
· write with adequate accuracy about the topics studied
· compose a written piece of at least 100 words on the topics, following a given format (eg.
informal letter or e­mail, article, essay) and using varied sentence structures
Reading Comprehension (Criterion E)
· understand short simplified texts (eg. newspaper articles, graphs, statistics, recipes)
· understand longer passages and texts (up to 200 words) relating to above topics
Grammar (Criteria B and D)
understand and apply the following grammatical structures:
· verbs: present tense regular –er verbs; common irregular verbs (être, avoir, aller, faire);
phrases using –ir and –re verbs (e.g. je bois, je prends, je sors)
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