French/Lessons/Planning

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Contents 1 Lesson To-Do 1.1 General 1.2 Introductory 1.3 Level One 1.4 Level Two 1.5 Level Three 2 Lesson Contents 3 Level Structure 4 Level Four 4.1 General 4.2 Themes 4.3 Grammar 4.4 Common Expressions 4.5 Disambiguation Lessons 5 Lesson Ideas 5.1 Exercise Ideas 5.1.1 French Names To Use 5.2 Concept Lessons 6 Audio 6.1 Help Playing Audio Files 6.2 Contribute! 6.2.1 Native Speakers 6.2.2 Maintenance Tasks 6.3 Creating Audio Files 6.4 Uploading the File to Wikibooks 6.5 Custom File Names or Multiple Files Per Table

[edit] Lesson To-Do

If you would like to help, feel free to do any of these tasks.

[edit] General

• {{Template:French Table}}-ify some tables.
• Exercises and tests: tests should have same exact parts as exercises, but with different words
• Add detail to grammar and vocabulary.
  • Instead of simply having tables, we should try to guide the reader though the lesson.
• Add pronunciation to every new french word in levels one and two. By level three, readers should have a handle on pronunciation, so this should stop then.
  • The pronunciation tables are sometimes inconsistent, especially in combination with the lesson plans on Wikiversity. After expanding or having a review on French/Appendices/Pronunciation_index, the pronunciation guides should be adjusted to the standard.

• Within a module or chapter, a section will have a notation before it's title:
  • A V: indicates a vocabulary section.
  • A G: indicates a grammar section.
  • A D: indicates a dialogue example.
  • A E: indicates an exercise.

[edit] Introductory

• Sort out French/Lessons/Numbers
• Add more history of the French language and country details and pictures to French/Lessons/Introduction
• Divide up French/Lessons/Learning French advice into several sections and expand
• Clarify some things and add examples to French/Lessons/Dates and French/Lessons/Time

[edit] Level One

• Add note on adverbs to French/Lessons/Description
• Add contractions, partitive articles, basic question formation rules
• Expand Possessive pronouns with examples

[edit] Level Two

• Reorganize to include other passé composé rules, imparfait, and plus-que-parfait

The vocabulary that still needs to be done is:

• 2.05 Transportation: V: Driving, V: Traffic Signs and Laws, V: Trains and Stations, V: Taking a Taxi
• 2.06 Everyday Life: V: Sleep, V: Waking up and Getting Yourself Ready, V: Going to Work, V: At Work
• 2.08 Dining: V: Ordering
• 2.10 Communication: V: Mail, V: Calling Others, V: Computers & the Internet

[edit] Level Three

The vocabulary that still needs to be done is:

• 3.01 - V: Airports and Airplanes, V: Directions, V: At a Hotel
• 3.02 - V: Private Employment, V: Government Occupations, V: The Office, V: Office Supplies
• 3.03 - V: Visiting the Doctor, V: Visiting the Dentist, V: Healthcare, V: Emergencies, V: Medecine
• 3.04 - V: Forms of Payment, V: Economics, V: Handling Money, V: Going to a Bank
• 3.06 - V: Pop Culture, V: Mass Media, V: Part-Time Jobs
• 3.07 - V: Farming and Peasant Life, V: Noble Life, V: The King, V: The Rennaissance, V: The Reformation
• 3.08 - V: The Enlightenment, V: French Revolution, V: Democracy, V: The Napoleonic Era, V: Post-Napoleon France, V: The Industrial Revolution
• 3.09 - V: The 20th Century, V: 20th Century Advancements and Changes, V: The 20th Century
• 3.10 - V: European Union, V: France's Role in Global Politics

It would be helpful if someone would add which auxillary verb to use for each past participle - avoir or être - to the irregular past participles review in section 3.02.

[edit] Lesson Contents

Levels One Through Three:
Each lesson should focus on user involvement, and include:

• A written introduction with info about the lesson's topic.
• Vocabulary
• Grammar
• More pictures! WikiCommons seems to have plenty of French-related pictures.
• Exercises after every section.
• An increasingly more difficult paragraph/lecture followed by questions about it, with both the questions and lecture being completely in French, should be a fundamental part of each lesson. This will involve the student and cause him or her to go back and reread vocabulary tables. The first lesson should be a short "Hi. My name is ___. I live in...etc" with questions about the person and his life. Later lectures should be about the subject of the lesson, such as culture, sports, professions, and daily life.

Level Four:

• See the level four section below.
• Themes: Each of the ten lessons is themed with a French speaking region and its life and culture.
• Grammar: Everything not yet covered.
• Common Expressions: A set of common expressions should be included in each lesson.
• Texts: A text from French literature should be included in every lesson.
• Disambiguation Topics: Common problems and errors should be included in every lesson.

[edit] Level Structure

Introductory Level:

• Rules on pronunciation, writing and, reading
• Common French phrases
• Absolutely no grammar

Level One

• Grammar
  • Only one verb section + one other grammar section per lesson
  • Only present indicative tense, very common irregular verbs (avoir, être, faire)
• Very basic introduction, could be learned in about a day with full effort
• One or two texts from French litterature should go at the end of the lesson.

Level Two

• Grammar
  • New grammar: passé composé, all common irregular verbs
  • Review sections: regular verbs, object pronouns
  • Several grammar sections per lesson
• More advanced than level one, could be done in about a week with effort.
• A text from French litterature should go after every few lessons for a total of three or four.

Level Three:

• Grammar: several new tenses, all pronouns
• Detailed user-written lectures on each lesson's subject should be written. The reader should have enough knowledge to read these by now.
• A text from French litterature should go after every few lessons for a total of five or six.

[edit] Level Four

[edit] General

• Level Four Main Page
• Vocabulary: Standard vocabulary topics have all been used up by now. The focus should be guiding the student through French texts.
• Grammar: Advanced and detailed grammar points should be part of each lesson.
• Theme: Since there's not enough new general vocabulary for this level, we should make each lesson region-themed, like the Greman Wikibook. One lesson should be about Southern France life and culture, another about Louisiana, etc for a total of ten. The texts chosen for each lesson should be somewhat related to the region theme.
• Common Expressions: A set of common expressions should be included in each lesson.
• Texts: A text from French litterature should be included in every lesson.
• Disambiguation Topics: Common problems and errors should be included in every lesson.

[edit] Themes

1. Alps
2. Bordeaux / Pyrenees
3. (Former) French Colonies
4. Louisiana / New orleans
5. Mediterranean Region of France (Marseille and Nice)
6. Quebec (with Quebec National Anthem Text)
7. Africa
8. Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg
9. Paris
10. Rural France

[edit] Grammar

• Subjunctive Regular Verbs Formation
• Subjunctive Irregular Verb Formation
• Subjunctive Use
• Past Infinitive
• Less common passé simple irregular verbs

[edit] Common Expressions

These should be included in every lesson.

• Physical and mental health
• Reacting to events
• Thanking
• Complementing
• (Dis)agreeing
• Invitations
• Meetings
• Expressing opinions

[edit] Disambiguation Lessons

1. quoi,qui,que,ce que,est-ce que,qu'est-ce que,qui est-ce qui
2. tous, tout, toutes
3. false cognates
4. ap/em/porter
5. a/em/mener
6. em/s'en aller/vouloir/s'enfuir/s'envoler
7. pronominal verbs with meanings different than regular version
8. tomber
9. plus
10. bon vs bien
11. capitalization
12. an/année, jour/journée
13. negation other that ne..pas in detail
14. c'est vs il est, ce vs il vs one
15. mal, le mal, faire mal, malade, malaise, etc

[edit] Lesson Ideas

[edit] Exercise Ideas

• Fill-in-the-blank with vocab words
• Matching French to English
• Rewriting a given sentence/phrase using a new tense/vocab word

[edit] French Names To Use

Adèle, Amelie, Béatrice, Caroline, Denise, Eugène, François, Georges, Hector, Isidore, Jacques, Julie, Karl, Léon, Marie, Michel, Mireille, Noémie, Odette, Olivier, Pierre, Quentin, Robert, Simone, Thomas, Ursule, Victor, William, Xavier, Yves, Zoé

[edit] Concept Lessons

If you are interested in developing a lesson on any single aspect of French, but unsure where to develop it, put it together and link to it below. Title it French/Lessons/Concept/[title]. It can then be seen below, and later moved into the proper progression of lessons. Consider also simply adding or expanding on an appendix that can serve as a reference source for the student. (from the German Wikibook)

• Only grammar
  • The subjunctive lesson was temporarily put here. It will be used in level four.
• Only vocabulary
• Only lectures
• Lessons with related grammar/vocabulary/lectures/texts

[edit] Audio

[edit] Help Playing Audio Files

Wikipedia page

[edit] Contribute!

[edit] Native Speakers

Do you really like your voice and want the rest of the world to hear it? Do you want to improve this Wikibook? If so, please upload audio to accompany each lesson whenever you see a red "audio" link on a table by clicking on that link and uploading your audio to the file given.

If you would like to contribute to other projects needing pronunciation files, see Commons:French_pronunciation.

[edit] Maintenance Tasks

If an "upload" link brought you here for a file that already exists, please edit the table and change the "0" at the top of the table to the size of the audio file in kilobytes. You can find the filesize by typing [[:image:[filename].ogg]] in the sandbox and clicking on the link.

Add [[Category:French Audio]] to any French audio file on Wikibooks that doesn't already have it. To do this, click "edit this page" on the info (Image:) page. Don't do this to files on Commons.

[edit] Creating Audio Files

The best and most efficent format to use for recorded speech that is acceptable at Wikibooks is .ogg with the Speex codec.

First create a .wav file using the software that came with your microphone. Next you must convert the file to .ogg. To do this, first download the binary file here. Install it, open command prompt (start=>run=>cmd.exe), and type:

 x:\...\speexenc.exe x:\...\file.wav x:\...\file.ogg

where "x:\...\" is the directory of speexenc.exe, the location of the .wav file to be converted, and the soon-to-be location of the .ogg file. Replace "file" with the name of the .wav file.

[edit] Uploading the File to Wikibooks

1. Click on the red audio link at the top of the table that you created audio for.
2. Click browse and find the .ogg file, choose a liscense for your file, and click "upload file."
3. Click "edit this page" at the top and add [[Category:French Audio]] to the edit box.
4. Click "Save page" then reload the page of the table you created audio for and make sure the "audio" link turns blue.
5. Edit the table and change the "0" at the top to the file size amount in kilobytes of the file (listed on the file's description page).

[edit] Custom File Names or Multiple Files Per Table

To use a custom file name for a table, edit the table and add |[file location(s) and info] between the column number (often 4) and }}.

Example:

{| {{French Table|Vocabulary|Airports and Airplanes|Les aéroports et les avions|258 + 205|4|audio: [[media:French-Vacances7.ogg|One]] • [[media:French-Vacances8.ogg|Two]]}}

produces:

French Vocabulary • Planning • audio: One • Two (258 + 205 kb • help) Airports and Airplanes Les aéroports et les avions

(edit template) (discussion) Lessons Information • Introductory • Level One • Level Two • Level Three • Level Four • Q&A • Planning

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Grammar • Appendices • Texts • About • Q&A • Planning

(discussion)