01 DES RACINES ET DES AILES
p. 03 - 22
02 ALLEZ, RACONTE !
p. 23 - 42
DOSSIERS DÉFIS SOCIETY AND CULTURE
DOSSIER 01
Before
DOSSIER 02 After
DOSSIER 01
Traditions
DOSSIER 02
Stories and fairytales
03 LANGUES VIVANTES
p. 43 – 62
04 BÊTES DE SCÈNE
p. 63 - 82
05 LE MONDE
2.0
p. 83 - 102
DOSSIER 01
Words from elsewhere
DOSSIER 02
Multiple-language regions and the official language in France
DOSSIER 01
The performing arts
DOSSIER 02
From stage to screen
DÉFI #01
Make a video about a classmate’s memory
DÉFI #02
Participate in a writing contest on future migrations
DÉFI #03 NUMÉRIQUE
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DÉFI #01
Present a tradition from your country and give advice to visitors
DÉFI #02
Imagine the current life of a storybook character
DÉFI #03 NUMÉRIQUE
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DÉFI #01
Stage a debate on a language topic
DÉFI #02
Make an infographic of the languages represented in class
DÉFI #03 NUMÉRIQUE
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DÉFI #01
Create a program for a performing arts festival
DÉFI #02
Make an exhibit of the class’s cult films
DÉFI #03 NUMÉRIQUE
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DOSSIER 01
The essential 2.0
DOSSIER 02
Connected living
06 À CONSOMMER AVEC MODÉRATION
p. 103 - 122
DOSSIER 01
The information jungle
DOSSIER 02
Advertising
DÉFI #01
Come up with and present an offbeat app
DÉFI #02
Create a post in support of a cause
DÉFI #03 NUMÉRIQUE
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DÉFI #01
Write a fait divers
DÉFI #02
Give a presentation
DÉFI #03 NUMÉRIQUE
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• The memory factory
• The story of my roots
• 13 million branches
• In search of happiness
• The “repat” phenomenon
• Mars: The next great migration!
• How to organize a housewarming party
• Traditional celebrations in Réunion
• When traditions spark debate
• Why should children read stories?
• Amna et sa marâtre
• Griots: Living libraries
• The French stream
• Studying ancient languages (Greek and Latin)
• The World Esperanto Congress in Québec
• French regional languages
• Indigenous languages of Quebec
• What if we all spoke the same language?
• Festivals in Belgium
• Phare, the Cambodian circus
• French opera
• Three French cult plays
• The return of boulevard theater
• Working for the Comédie-Française
• App madness
• Digital illiteracy
• Selfies: narcissism or social expression?
• Everyone connected
• YouTuber teachers in France
• Hashtivism in Morocco
• The French and the media
• Educational media in French schools
• Information overload
• Sexism in advertising
• Advertising and its impact on children’s health
• Ad pollution
• Recalling a memory tied to an emotion
• Telling a story set in the past
• Discussing roots and origins
• Expressing feelings
• Describing a recipe for happiness
• Expressing dissatisfaction
• Discussing dreams, wishes, and plans
• Discussing traditions
• Debating the usefulness and relevance of traditions
• Giving advice and making recommendations
• Expressing feelings
• Telling a story
• Discussing cultural differences in stories and fairy tales
• Situating events
• Describing one’s relation to others
• Discussing the origins and influence of a language
• Expressing interests
• Expressing opinions, agreement, and disagreement
• Discussing your relationship to languages and learning them
• Characterizing a language
• Making imaginary hypotheses
• Discussing the performing arts
• Describing people, things, and actions
• Expressing opinions on a performance
• Discussing film and theater
• Summarizing the plot of a movie or play
• Discussing successive or simultaneous events
• Describing an app and how it works
• Discussing online (in)equity
• Nuancing statements
• Analyzing the selfie trend
• Discussing various uses of the internet
• Discussing learning on YouTube
• Expressing surprise
• Discussing activism 2.0
• Discussing our relationship to information and the media
• Discussing verifying information
• Discussing the influence of advertising
• Discussing ads
• Debating public health issues
• Reporting other people’s opinions
• Alternating passé composé /imparfait
• Past agreement with avoir
• Discussing plans
• The simple future (review)
• Possessive pronouns
• Expressing opposition (1)
VOCABULARY
• The brain and memories
• Feeling (1)
• Origins and migratory paths
• To do one's family tree
• Professional career
• Expressing dissatisfaction
• Space travel and comic strips
• Il faut que / Il ne faut pas que
• The present subjunctive
• Emphasis using c'est / ce sont (1)
• Direct and indirect object pronouns (review)
• The pronouns en and y (review)
• Pronoun placement
• Stressed pronouns
• Relative pronouns (lequel, duquel, auquel…)
• Opinion verbs with the indicative and the subjunctive (1)
• Indefinite adjectives and determiners (certain(e)s, plusieurs, quelques)
• The present conditional
• Hypotheses with si + imparfait + conditional
• The relative pronoun dont
• The present participle (1)
• Expressing posteriority and anteriority using après and avant de (1)
• The plus-que-parfait
• Expressing simultaneity
• Expressing concession (1)
• Indefinite pronouns
• Expressing objectives (1)
• Expressing opinions (2)
• The past subjunctive
• The passive voice (1)
• Expressing certainty and doubt
• Reporting verbs
• Reported speech in the past
• Housewarming party
• Cultural codes
• Traditions and force feeding
• Feelings (2)
• Learning
• Characteristics of fairy tales and nursery rhymes
• Temporal markers
• Languages and foreign words
• Passions and interests
• Uses and usefulness of a language
• Characteristics and richness of languages
• Language and communication
• Performing arts
• Talking about a show
• Cinema, theater, success, and prizes
• Expressions with faire and prendre
• Artistic career
• Apps
• The Internet and the Web
• Uses of the internet
• Selfies
• The internet
• Expressing surprise
• Civic engagement to defend a cause
• Body positions and movements
• Media and current events
• Expressions used to introduce a piece of information
• Overconsumption of media
• Advertising
• Logical connectors to structure a written text or presentation
07 PLANÈTE PAS NETTE
p.123 – 142
08 ON LÂCHE RIEN !
p.143 - 162
DOSSIERS DÉFIS
DOSSIER 01
Waste
DOSSIER 02
Climate change
DOSSIER 01
Inequities
DOSSIER 02
Impoliteness and unruliness
DÉFI #01
Create an eco-citizenry test
DÉFI #02
Make some apocalyptic predictions
DÉFI #03 NUMÉRIQUE
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DÉFI #01
Write the manifesto for an ideal society
DÉFI #02
Organize a public assembly
DÉFI #03 NUMÉRIQUE
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09
ÊTRES DIFFÉRENTS
p.163 - 182
10
VILLE EN VIE
p.183 - 202
DOSSIER 01
Sexism and parity
DOSSIER 02
Human rights, protection, and solidarity
DOSSIER 01
A matter of taste
DOSSIER 02
The cities of the future
DÉFI #01
Act out a celebrity interview
DÉFI #02
Write an editorial
DÉFI #03 NUMÉRIQUE
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SOCIETY AND CULTURE
• Homo détritus vs. homo recyclus
• The headache of sorting waste
• Some Francophone initiatives against plastic
• Nostradamus’s predictions
• The butterfly effect
• Rising water in New Caledonia
• Inequities in France
• The Gilets jaunes
• Le Manifeste des femmes in Quebec
• Fighting impoliteness in Belgium and Senegal
• A letter of complaint to a neighbor
• Complaining is good for your health!
• Sexist stereotypes in school
• If I had been a boy...
• Parity in African politics
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Charity accommodation of migrants
• A law against racial discrimination in Tunisia
DÉFI #01
Create an urban safari
DÉFI #02
Create a perfect city
DÉFI #03 NUMÉRIQUE
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11
DE LA FOURCHE À LA FOURCHETTE
p.203 – 222
DOSSIER 01
Rural and urban agriculture
DOSSIER 02
Local and global nutrition
DÉFI #01
Present an urban revegetation project
DÉFI #02
Present the inconsistencies and contradictions of a country’s food industry
DÉFI #03 NUMÉRIQUE
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• City and poetry
• Charleroi: a comeback story
• Urban exploration
• Paris by Patrick Süskind
• Marseille by Massilia Sound System
• Major trends in future urban planning
• Smart cities
• Les Furtifs by Alain Damasio
• The challenges of African cities
• Some agricultural initiatives in Maghreb
• Permaculture in Morocco
• Consequences of pesticides
• The grain of hope in Benin
• The revegetation of cities
• Our planet doesn’t add up! The absurdity of food processing
• Chicken by-products in Réunion
• Is eating local actually good for the planet?
• Local products: between authenticity and business
• Discussing recycling
• Giving recycling instructions
• Discussing eco-citizen initiatives
• Explaining the causes and effects of an action or phenomenon
• Expressing a fear
• Discussing inequities
• Discussing protest movements
• Asking and making demands
• Discussing impoliteness and unruliness
• Asserting your rights
• Sharing a dubious piece of information
• Getting frustrated, complaining, responding to insults
• Discussing sexism
• Making hypotheses
• Expressing criticism and regrets
• Expressing necessity
• Discussing human rights
• Bringing up citizen values and forms of engagement
• Situating actions in time
• Discussing poetry
• Writing a poem
• Discussing beauty and ugliness
• Bringing up feelings
• Discussing challenges of cities
• Imagining cities of the future
• Discussing urban planning
• Discussing social science fiction novels
• Expressing condition
• Expressing exclusion and inclusion
• Expressing cause and consequence (1)
• Expressing anxiety, worry, and fear
• Emphasis using ce qui, ce que, ce dont (2)
• Expressing will and desire
• The present participle (2)
• The conditional (review)
• Discussing agriculture
• Establishing connections between multiple texts
• Expressing judgment and indignation
• Offering solutions to problems
• Calling out an illogical situation
• Detailing a paradox
• Discussing regional products and labeling
• The past conditional
• Imaginary hypothesis in the past
• Expressing necessity using il est important de / que
• Expressing anteriority and posteriority (2)
• n'importe qui / quoi / où
• The subjunctive (review)
• Expressing cause (2)
• Avoiding repetition
• Expressing consequence (2)
• The neuter pronoun le
• Expressing subjectivity
• Expressing opposition and concession
• Trash, recycling, waste sorting
• Verbs describing citizen commitment
• Global warming
• Natural disasters
• Flora and fauna
• Nominalization
• Oceans and seas
• Inequities
• Protest, anger
• Verbs for asking (souhaiter, exiger…)
• Impoliteness and unruly behavior
• Noisiness
• Disputes and insults
• Negative emotions
• Gender, sexism
• Colloquial language
• Political parity
• Politics and government
• Human rights
• Solidarity
• Racism
• Poetry
• Cities, urban planning
• Transformation and revival
• Beauty and ugliness
• City nicknames
• ré-, ra-, and dé- prefixes
• Reporting increase and decrease
• Urban planning, technology
• pan- and omni- prefixes
• Expressions with coin and cities' names
• Expressing subjectivity
• Agriculture, plants
Livestock farming
Farm-bred phrases
Agricultural production
Absurdity
Idioms
12
DE LA TÊTE
AUX PIEDS
p.223 - 242
13
DOSSIERS DÉFIS
DOSSIER 01
Beauty standards
DOSSIER 02
The body improved
DOSSIER 01
Fitting the job description
LE CŒUR À L'OUVRAGE
p.243 - 262
DOSSIER 02
Those who want, can?
DÉFI #01
Write a magazine editorial
DÉFI #02
Create an exhibit for progress in science
DÉFI #03 NUMÉRIQUE
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DÉFI #01
Prepare and sit for a job interview
DÉFI #02
Create a magazine for the work world
DÉFI #03 NUMÉRIQUE
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14
L’ART ET LA MANIÈRE
p.263 – 282
15
DOSSIER 01
Handmade
DOSSIER 02
Art standing the test of reality
DOSSIER 01
Speaking like we write
SUR LE BOUT DE LA LANGUE
p.283 - 302
DOSSIER 02
Writing like we speak
DÉFI #01
Present a traditional craft
DÉFI #02
Create a catalog for an exhibit
DÉFI #03 NUMÉRIQUE
My French Hub
SOCIETY AND CULTURE
• New standards of beauty
• Body image and the media's influence
• The YouTuber Norman on virility
• Transgender identity in artistic creation
• An interview with Bilal Hassani
• The athlete’s body: performance at all costs
• Soft skills in the workplace and learning languages
• The management skills of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon
• The history of the Lebanese company Pharaon
• The job interview: a sketch by Anne Roumanoff and a recruiter’s advice
• Work in literature
• Uberization and the gig economy
• Travailler by the Ivorian group Magic System
• Succeeding at 30 in France
• Frugalism and the frugalistes
• Protecting disappearing crafts
• Perfumery, from Grasse to Normandy
• Glassblowing, a Belgian tradition
• From sewing machine to typewriter
• Scandalous paintings in 19th century France
• Faits divers and literature: from Madame Bovary to Chanson douce
• Between reality and fiction: The works of Sabine Pigalle at the heart of a new genre
DÉFI #01
Write an open letter to the Académie française
DÉFI #02
Create a dictionary of everyday French
16
DOSSIER 01
What are you playing?
LA RÈGLE DU JEU
p.303 - 322
DOSSIER 02
Our turn to play!
DÉFI #03 NUMÉRIQUE
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DÉFI #01
Present a board game
DÉFI #02
Gamify an activity for French class
DÉFI #03 NUMÉRIQUE
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• Learning French, a strenuous journey
• The beauty of the passé simple (Erik Orsenna and grammar)
• Le français est à nous: an end to linguistic purism
• Interculturality of gestures and mimics
• Faïza Guène's Kiffe Kiffe demain and contemporary French slang
• Leïla Slimani, ambassador of Francophonie
• Child’s play: the market for genderneutral toys is growing
• Three traditional, timeless games
• Le Jeu des 1 000 euros
• Grown-ups crazy about board games
• The gamification of society and work
• Fear and benefits of boredom
• Gamification in education
• “Serious” games and their stakes
COMMUNICATION GRAMMAR
• Discussing beauty standards and their evolution
• Giving a physical description
• Debating the importance of physical appearance
• Discussing transgender identity
• Discussing the body and body image
• Debating the limits and potential of the human body
• Discussing skills for the workplace
• Analyzing body language and speech
• Discussing management
• Asking formal questions
• Presenting a company
• Sharing and elaborating on job interviews
• Discussing work in literature
• Debating Uberization and the gig economy
• Illustrating facts using examples
• Discussing meritocracy
• Discussing frugalism
• Expressing way and manner
• Discussing craft trades
• Discussing perfume
• Discussing skills and expertise
• Discussing art
• Offering an opinion on a work of art
• Discussing fait divers
• Discussing difficulties of the French language
• Structuring an argument and speech
• Questioning and reacting
• Debating
• Discussing gestures and body language
• Handling different linguistic registers
• Adapting language to the situation
• The passive voice with être, se faire / se laisser + infinitive (2)
• The futur antérieur
• The past tenses
• Interrogative words (review)
• Interrogation with inversion
• Stating facts and examples
• The present participle and verbal adjectives
• Expressing continuity, interruption, and progression of an action
• Comparison
VOCABULARY
• Describing physical appearance
• Beauty criteria
• Body idioms
• Body, sports, and technologies
• dys- et trans- prefixes
• Body idioms
• Skills
• Work and business
• Job ads and job interviews
• Expressions related to work
• Working conditions and job insecurity
• Success and business
• -issime and -cratie suffixes
• The passé simple
• Emphasis and double emphasis (3)
• Art careers and craft trades
• Heritage and tradition
• Accomplishment, success
• Skills and expertise
• Dexterity and clumsiness
• Painting
• Scandals and polemics
• Crimes and offenses
• Comic books
• -cide suffix
• Informal expressions to talk about art
• French and languages
• Struggling
• Debating
• in- (im-, ir-, il-) prefixes
• Gestures and mimicry
• French slang
• Language registers
• Figures of speech
• Expressions with the word langue
• Discussing toys and their characteristics
• Explaining the rules of a game
• Creating rules of a game
• Discussing the gamification of society
• Discussing boredom
• Indefinite adjectives and pronouns (review)
• Expressing objectives (review)
• Games and equipment
• Game rules
• Game expressions
• Gamification
• Boredom, apathy
• -ification suffix
• Expressions of boredom
• Gender-neutral toys and games
