Welcome to French 1B

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here for homework assignments and practice activities

Félicitations!  You are now in your second year of
studying French!  At the end of this
year, you will have earned one High
School credit of second language study.

At
the end of this year, you will be taking the New York State Second Language Proficiency Examination in
French.  This exam focuses on the
four communicative skills:

·
speaking (you will be tested individually
by the teacher to see how well you can hold simple conversations in French)

·
listening (which consists of 20
multiple choice questions based on French passages you will hear)

·
reading (which consists of 10
multiple-choice questions based on French passages you will read)

writing (you will have to write 2 short
compositions on assigned topics)

This
year, we will be completing our coverage of the following topics in French:

personal
identification (describing ourselves and others)

family life (talking
about members of our family)

education (talking
about school subjects, classroom objects and school supplies)

neighborhood and
community (describing locations, giving directions)

house and home
(talking about the rooms in a house, furniture, appliances, and household
chores)

physical
environment (talking about weather, climate, geographic features, animals)

sports and leisure
(sports, games, TV, movies and other popular pastimes)

shopping
(clothing, personal items)

health and welfare
(parts of the body, describing illness, asking for medical attention)

foods and
meal-taking

travel and transportation

jobs and professions

public and private services (going
to the bank, post office, etc.)

You
will also have to do a major culture project.  Click here for
information on the French 1B Culture Project.