5: Tant de choses à faire!
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Learning Objectives
Communication (what students will be able to do):
By the end of this chapter, students will be able to:
- Describe their own and family members' household chores.
- Discuss their duties at work.
- Discuss their current and desired lifestyles in terms of balancing work and leisure.
- Ask others questions about their work and lifestyles.
- Recount and ask questions about actions performed in the past.
Culture (what students will know about the French-speaking world):
By the end of this chapter, students will know something about:
- Gender distribution of household chores in France.
- Differences between French and American work schedules.
- Lifestyles in French-speaking Africa; rural versus city.
Grammar/ Tools (what students need to know):
In order to perform these communicative tasks, students will have to understand and be able to use correctly the following grammatical structures:
- Regular -re verbs in the present tense.
- The verbs vouloir, pouvoir, and devoir in the present tense.
- The passé composé formed with the helping verb avoir.
- The passé composé in negative and inverted sentences.
- Informational Questions.
- The interrogatives quel vs. que.