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French in Action
French in Action is the most complete and authentic exposure to French culture you can offer your students—short of actually taking them to France. The series features the humorous story of an American student and a young Frenchwoman, told in French. Your students will build their comprehension and sharpen their oral and written skills as they follow the story, meeting native speakers in realistic settings along the way. French in Action also promotes understanding and appreciation of French culture as it travels through the French countryside from Paris to Chartres to the Burgundian wine country. Episode DescriptionsPart
I 2-4
Planning and Anticipating — Greeting and leave-taking;
talking about health; expressing surprise; planning and anticipating;
expressing decisiveness and indecisiveness. Subject pronouns; masculine
and feminine adjectives and nouns; definite and indefinite articles;
immediate future; agreement in gender and number; aller; être;
present indicative of -er verbs. 5
Names and Origins — Numbers; expressing age; giving commands;
necessity; negation. Numbers 1-29; avoir; avoir in expressions of
age; ne ... pas; imperatives of -er verbs; il faut and infinitives. 6-
7 Physical Characteristics — Reality and appearance;
describing oneself; talking about sports. Numbers 30-100; faire;
aimer and faire with sports; questions with intonation, inversion,
and est-ce que. 8
Kinship — Talking about family relationships; asking the
identity of people and things. Numbers 100-999,000,000; dates; partitive;
possessive adjectives. 9-10
Describing Others — Describing others; talking about games;
expressing agreement and disagreement; talking about time; talking
about the weather. Present tense with il y a ... que and ça
fait ... que; possessive and demonstrative adjectives; stressed
pronouns; venir; savoir versus connaître. 11-14
Encounters — Starting a conversation; talking about
seasons and time of day; exclamations; talking about studies; referring
to lack and abundance; expressing approval and disapproval; reacting
to compliments; expressing politeness. Immediate past with venir
de; direct object pronouns; reflexive verbs; imperative and pronouns;
demonstrative adjectives and pronouns; interrogative adjectives
and pronouns; parler versus dire; imperfect; imperfect of être
and avoir. 15-18
Occupations — Talking about work; degrees of assent;
days and months of the year; buying and spending; approximating;
talking about years and centuries. Aller versus venir; prepositions;
contractions of definite article with de and à; adverbial
pronouns y and en; vouloir, pouvoir; c'est versus il/elle est; ne
... plus, ne ... jamais; pronoun on; indirect object pronouns; formation
of adverbs. 19-21
Education — Identification and description; talking
about occupations; talking back; excusing oneself; expressing incredulity.
Passé composé; plaire; negation with jamais, rien,
personne; mettre, boire; passé composé and direct
object pronouns; savoir and infinitives; agreement of past participle
with avoir. 22-23
Getting Around — Using the telephone; receiving invitations;
expressing optimism and Passé composé of reflexive
verbs; passé composé with être; agreement of
past participles; future. 24-26
Food and Drink — Talking about food and drink; ordering
in a restaurant; thanking hosts. Future of irregular verbs; relative
pronouns qui and que; imperative with direct and indirect object
pronouns; position of en with object pronouns; ne ... que; expressions
of quantity; vowel change e/è. Part
II
32-35 Habitat — Asking one's way; talking about housing;
protesting; expressing satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Imperfect
and passé composé; irregular imperatives; causative
faire; faire versus rendre; en and present participles; ni...ni. 36-40
Entertainment — Talking about entertainment; calming others
down; expressing restriction; expressing reservations; expressing
doubt; expressing enthusiasm. Indefinite expressions; subjunctive;
subjunctive of irregular verbs; subjunctive with falloir and expression
of doubt; position of souvent, tousjours, jamais; verbs in -yer;
personne and rien as subjects and objects. 41-45
Getting and Spending — Talking about money; buying and
selling; announcing good and bad news; expressing indifference;
talking about good and bad luck; expressing preference. Subjunctive
in conditional sentences with conjunctions in relative clauses;
personne and rien with compound tenses; position of déjà
and encore; plus rien, jamais rien; comparatives and superlatives;
superlative and subjunctive; relative pronouns ce qui, ce que; demonstrative
pronouns. 46-50
Geography and Tourism
— Talking about countries and regions; exaggerating; confirming;
insisting; expressing perplexity. Conditional in intentional expressions;
dont; pronoun tout; possessive pronouns; irregular subjunctives;
subjunctive in subordinate clauses; future in the past; penser de
versus penser à; articles and prepositions with geographical
names. 51-52 Getting Away — Referring to destinations; levels of speech. Negative infinitive; imperatives and pronouns. |
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