French 1010 Student Learning Expectations
Performance Outcomes Grammar Structures Cultural Opportunities
Essential Vocabulary
1. Greet and say farewell
2. Describe self and others
3. Ask and answer questing
pertaining to self and others
4. Talk about everyday items (i.e.,
food, weather, body parts, daily
routine, colors , sports and
activities)
5. Discuss daily routines
6. Compare people, things and
actions
7. Describe present events
8. Tell time
9. Express needs and feelings
10. Give and follow directions
11. Express likes and dislikes
12. Maintain survival level
conversation
13. Talk about immediate future
events
1. Subject pronouns
2. Adjective placement and
agreement/understanding
gender
3. Question formation structures
4. Subject /verb agreement
5. Negatives
6. Reexive verbs
7. Comparison and superlative of
adjectives and adverbs
8. Present tense conjugations of
regular er, ir, and re verbs in
present tense+ oir: devoir,
vouloir, pouvoir
9. Present tense conjugation of
irregular verbs
10. European timetable
11. Imperative
12. Prepositions of location
13. Denite/indenite articles/
partitive
14. Disjunctive pronouns
15. Aller + innitive
16. Narrating past events
1. Identify francophone countries
and their locations
2. Identify key cities in
francophone countries
3. Understand the signicance
of everyday customs unique to
France
4. Distinguish formal/informal
settings
5. Understand differing customs
as they pertain to everyday life
6. Understand the historical
impact of signicant French
cultural, political and social
movements/events
7. Experience francophone
cuisine
8. Recognize signicant
monuments/landmarks located
in francophone countries
9. Recognize important holidays
and experience customs
associated with them
10. Sporting events
11. The educative system
12. French fashion
13. Develop an understanding of
contemporary social and
political issues in France
and the francophone world
(e.g., Burkas)
1. Greeting/departing/making
introductions
2. Adjectives
3. Interrogative expressions and
pronouns
4. House, car, school, family,
food, clothing, travel, making
purchases, sports/activities, etc.
5. Numbers (ordinal and
cardinal), days of the week,
months of the year, expressing
dates and telling time
6. Idiomatic expressions using
avoir, faire
7. Occupations
8. Expressions for giving and
following directions
Authors: Carol Kirkwood (Laramie High School, Albany #1), Leslie Boaz
(Wheatland High School, Platte #1) Benedicte Soher (University of Wyoming)
The World Languages Work Group convened summer 2010 to create this
document with support from the Wyoming School-University Partnership and with
funds from the Qwest Foundation.
More information and list of work group members: www.uwyo.edu/wsup
