French Introduction to Conversation and Storytelling

These introductory courses provide students with the basic skills to read, write, speak and understand introductory-level French. The emphasis of the class is to acquire language through constant exposure to comprehensible input with the use of storytelling and reading. In the second term, the teacher uses French exclusively in class. Vocabulary will be taught communicatively through stories and with some thematic units including greetings, telling time, weather, school, sports, food, making plans, family, and clothing. Grammar will be acquired mainly through listening and reading, although there will be some direct instruction. Students completing this class will be able to comfortably use the present tense of common regular and irregular verbs, articles, subject pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, commands, question formation, possessive adjectives and more.

Intro to Storytelling students may be eligible to participate in a trip to France during the 2023-2024 school year as part of their coursework.

• Interests: Literature
• Grades: 10th, 11th, 12th, 9th
• Subjects: Modern Languages