Conjugations include the present and past tenses and the imperative of regular and irregular verbs. Students also learn object pronouns and review possessive, demonstrative and interrogative adjectives. Reading, spelling, speaking and aural comprehension are equally emphasized as part of the global totality of learning French. Culture is another important feature of this course with particular emphasis on Paris. This course includes grammatical studies of reflexive verbs, the pronouns y and en and several irregular verbs.
Students complete an in-depth study of the imperfect, simple future and conditional tenses.
Vocabulary categories include sports, parts of the body, rooms and items in a house, and clothing. The emphasis of this course is on developing special proficiency in speaking and listening since at the end of the year students are expected to speak the language in short sentences with fluency and accuracy. Further, they must be able to write a paragraph with a minimum amount of spelling and grammatical mistakes and to read orally with appropriate intonation. Culture includes studies of Paris, impressionism and major periods of French history. D.C. Heath, 1993.