Scope and Sequence
Content
Topic/ Unit
Title and
length of unit
Unit 0:
Introduction
+
Unit 1:
Personal
details and
families
(Quarter 1)
Specific Skills to be
developed
Subject: French AB Initio SL
What do we want students to
learn?
Learning Outcomes
French ab initio Guide 2015 1. Not to use Google Translate.
Receptive skills:
2. Greet, thank, and take leave.
Understand straightforward
3. Cultural differences in
recorded or spoken information on
greetings.
the topics studied. Understand
4.
Share about dis/likes.
authentic written texts related to the
5. Express dis/agreement.
topics studied and that use mostly
everyday language.
6. Describe people.
Productive skills:
7. Conjugation patterns of –
Communicate orally in order to
ER, -IR and –DRE verbs.
explain a point of view on a
8. Variability of adjectives and
designated topic. Describe with
invariability of adverbs.
some detail and accuracy
experiences, events and concepts.
9. Write in paragraphs and
Produce texts where the use of
provide supporting details.
register, style, rhetorical devices
10.
Type of text: friendly mails
and structural elements are
and speeches.
generally appropriate to the
11. French in the world: EU and
audience and purpose.
Interactive skills:
IFO.
Demonstrate interaction that
usually flows coherently, but with
occasional limitations.
Engage in conversations on the
topics studied, as well as related
ideas. Demonstrate some
Intercultural engagement with
French language and culture(s).
How best will students learn?
Sample activities
Grade level: 11
How will we know
what students have
learned?
Assessment tasks Formative /
Summative
practice at present tense.
PRODUCTIVE
+ Prepare and give a
presentation
+ Gender/number variability
explanation and practice.
+ Write an introduction
speech about you arriving
in a new school.
+ Grammar explanation and
+ Write friendly mails.
+ Read simple articles, letters,
emails and speeches.
+ Describe pictures.
RECEPTIVE
+ Reading
comprehension texts
+ 2 text handling tasks.
INTERACTIVE
+ Prepare, describe a
picture, and answer basic
questions.
2015-2016
Notes for teachers
Link to
Learner
Profile/ school
philosophy
Links ToK/
international
Mindedness and
other curricula
+ Principled:
do not submit
any Google
Translated work
as your own.
TOK: Do we know and
learn our first language in
the same way as we learn
additional languages?
+ Caring: greet,
help, and thank
classmates and
the teacher.
Resources
+ La Grammaire
progressive
+ Vocabulaire pour
ados niveau débutant
(Clé International)
+ visuals
+ past papers
+ online resources.
+ available from 20152016: Panorama
francophone 1.
The Department will
have to ORDER in the
2016 BUDGET:
Panorama
Francophone 2.
Scope and Sequence
Content
Topic/ Unit
Title and
length of unit
Specific Skills to be
developed
As above
Unit 2:
Relationships
+
Unit 3: Daily
routine, house
and
household
(Quarter 2)
Subject: French AB Initio SL
What do we want students to
learn?
Learning Outcomes
1. House, household and routine.
2. Cultural differences in
routines.
3. Share about chores and
routine.
4. Express disappointments
and encouragements.
5. Describe indoor places.
6. Conjugation of common
irregular verbs + reflective
verbs.
7. Place of adjectives and
adverbs.
8. Convey opinions.
9. Type of text: posters and
adverts.
How best will students learn?
Sample activities
+ Grammar explanation and
practice at present tense.
+ Adjectives and adverbs
location: simplification and
practice.
+ Write about your daily
routine and your school day.
+ Read simple past paper texts.
+ Describe comics.
Grade level: 11
How will we know
what students have
learned?
Assessment tasks Formative /
Summative
PRODUCTIVE
+ Prepare and give a
presentation on 2 family
pictures.
+ Prepare and give a
presentation on 2 comics
about routine and chores.
+ Email writing (and
Notes for teachers
Link to
Learner
Profile/ school
philosophy
RECEPTIVE
+ Text handling tasks
+ 1 text handling task.
INTERACTIVE
+ Prepare, describe a
picture, give own
opinion, and answer
simple questions.
Links ToK/
international
Mindedness and
other curricula
Communicators: TOK: Why should not I
become confident use google translate to
do my French writing.
when you speak
to the class.
+ Balanced:
balance school
and personal
rewriting) about organizing stuff.
a mutual friend birthday.
+ Poster writing about a
lost cat.
+ Email writing about
inviting a friend to a
weeding.
+ A family picture to
describe.
2015-2016
Resources
As above.
Scope and Sequence
Content
Topic/ Unit
Title and
length of unit
Specific Skills to be
developed
As above
Unit 4:
Education
+
Unit 5: Pocket
money and
going out
(Quarter 3)
Subject: French AB Initio SL
What do we want students to
learn?
Learning Outcomes
1. Schools, studies, money and
weekend activities.
2. Cultural differences in
education systems and
weekend activities.
3. Share about schools, study
projects, and money
management.
4. Express disappointments
and encouragements.
5. Describe school premises
and talk about facilities.
6. Conjugation of slightly less
common irregular verbs.
7. Verbal expressions.
8. Convey apologies and talk
about future.
9. Type of text: formal mails
and web pages.
How best will students learn?
Sample activities
+ Explain and practice the
future tenses.
+ Making adverbs out of
adjectives.
Grade level: 11
How will we know
what students have
learned?
Assessment tasks Formative /
Summative
PRODUCTIVE
+ Prepare and give a
presentation on a
classroom drawing, a
photo about pocket
money.
+ Making substantives out of
actions.
+ Brochure writing about
what to do in town on
weekends.
+ Write about your daily routine + Letter writing (and
rewriting) on an
and your school day.
apologizing about the late
+ Read related past paper texts. turning in of an assignment.
+ Describe drawings.
+ Complete a research
assignment.
RECEPTIVE
+ Text handling tasks
+ 2 text handling task.
INTERACTIVE
+ Conversation about
subject choices.
+ Debate about how school
good or bad is the IB?
+ A class survey on how do
you spend your money?
2015-2016
Notes for teachers
Link to
Learner
Profile/ school
philosophy
Links ToK/
international
Mindedness and
other curricula
Reflective
Being aware on
own strengths
and weaknesses
to support our
improvements.
TOK: Do we learn French
as you learned English?
Why?
TOK: Why do we have
different past tenses in
many languages?
Resources
As above.
Scope and Sequence
Content
Topic/ Unit
Title and
length of unit
Specific Skills to be
developed
As above
Unit 6:
Holidays and
tourism
+
Unit 7:
Transports
and
communication
(Quarter 4)
Subject: French AB Initio SL
What do we want students to
learn?
How best will students learn?
Learning Outcomes
1. Accommodations,
transportations, and tourist
attractions.
2. Cultural differences in
holiday destinations.
3. Share about past holidays.
4. Express astonishments and
surprises.
5. Describe hotel/camping
facilities.
6. Conjugation of reflective
actions at past tenses.
7. More verbal expressions.
8. Convey hypothesis and
conditions.
9. Type of text: journal entries
and newspaper articles.
Sample activities
Grade level: 11
How will we know
what students have
learned?
Assessment tasks Formative /
Summative
Notes for teachers
Link to
Learner
Profile/ school
philosophy
+ Explain and practice the past
PRODUCTIVE
Thinker
tenses.
+ Oral presentation of a
comic’s page about
travelling.
+ Oral presentation of 2
drawings about travelling.
+ Newspaper article writing
+ A full IOP part 1.
+ Journal entry writing
Be critical /
creative to take
responsible
actions.
+ Explain and practice about
object pronouns.
+ Stress grammar
circumstances implying the use
of the infinitive mood.
+ Write about a previous trip.
RECEPTIVE
+ Various past paper text
+ Read related past paper texts.
handling tasks
+ A full past paper 1.
+ Describe various visuals.
+ Choose a Written
assignment topic and provide
evidence of a research
activity,
INTERACTIVE
Oral presentation: try to
convince your classmates
to come touring in your
country in a maximum of 2
minutes.
2015-2016
Links ToK/
international
Mindedness and
other curricula
TOK: Why it is most of
the time not a good idea
to translate word by
word?
Resources
As above.
Scope and Sequence
Subject: French AB Initio SL
Grade level: 11
2015-2016