Framingham Public Schools

Seventh Grade Curriculum Outcomes

Language Arts | Math | Science | Social Studies | Art | Music, Choral & Instrumental
Physical & Health Education | World Languages | Technology & Engineering

World Languages: French and Spanish

FRENCH

 Basic Text: Discovering French: Bleu, Valette D.C. Heath, 1998

Lessons: Unites 3-5

Brief Statement of Subject Matter:

The objectives of the grade 7 curriculum are to enable the students to understand, speak, read and write basic sentence patterns with emphasis on building vocabulary for real communication. Written work and grammatical structure are included in the curriculum. Units of French culture, including those French-speaking countries outside of France, are also incorporated.

General Objectives:

• Student will speak with correct pronunciation in a guided situation within the limits of the learned vocabulary structure with which he/she is conversant. The target language will be used by students and teachers except when clarification and grammatical explanations are necessary.
• Student can answer questions in writing and express basic original thoughts using known structure and vocabulary.
• Student will read aloud with correct pronunciation, phrasing and inflection and also demonstrate understanding of the material read.
• Student will demonstrate interest and awareness of French-speaking cultures by preparing project(s) related to French-speaking cultures.

Content:

• Interrogative Expressions with avoir
• Adjectives: gender/number/placement Faire
• Prepositions: "A" & "DE" Expressions with faire
• Regular – ER and IR verbs Negative
• Interrogative: Quest-ce qui/que" "Aller" plus infinitive
• Adjectives: vieux, heureux, beau Adjectives: placement
• Time
• Indefinite determiners
• Demonstrative adjectives

SPANISH

Basic Text: Ven Conmigo! – Adelante!, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2000

Lessons: Capitulos 4-6

Brief Statement of Subject Matter:

The objectives of the grade 7 curriculum are to enable the students to understand, speak, read and write basic sentence patterns with emphasis on building vocabulary for real communication. Written work and grammatical structure are included in the curriculum. Units on Spanish culture, particularly in Spanish-speaking America, are also incorporated.

General Objectives:

• Students will speak with correct pronunciation a guided situation within the limits of the vocabulary and structure with which he/she is conversant, using correction pronunciation.
• Student can answer questions in writing and express basic original thoughts using known structure and vocabulary.
• Student will read aloud with correct pronunciation, phrasing and inflection and also demonstrate understanding of the material read.
• Student will demonstrate interest and awareness of Spanish-speaking culture by preparing project(s) related to Spanish-speaking cultures.

Content:

• Venir Hacer
• Pronouns with prepositions Poner
• Ser and estar Weather
• - ER and -IR verbs Expressions with tener
• Aprender a Demonstration adjectives
• Tener que Salir
• "A" personal