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Bonjour,

I was wondering if someone can explain how they do their pacing for high school French 1. It was recommended to me that I only cover half of the book the first year. That means 2 units each semester. Is that normal? It seems soooooo slow to me. I feel like most high school students can handle a little more, but maybe I am wrong.
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Jaron HM Ok. I used to use the version before Nouveau, but still, I think you about problem spent no more than a month on the first two units. That will give you time during the year to explore authentic projects and give them a real foundation with culture. Plus they will need time to get a good foundation with the irregular verbs.

I might have s...See More
Aug 24, 2013
Amna On 8/24/13, Jaron HM wrote: > Ok. I used to use the version before Nouveau, but still, I think you > about problem spent no more than a month on the first two units. > That will give you time during the year to explore authentic > projects and give them a real foundation with culture. Plus they > will need time to get a good foundati...See More
Aug 24, 2013
michael I am interested in knowing also. I am teaching French 1 for the first time using Discovering French Today. I believe it is very similar to Nouveau. There seems to be so many great topics in the final units and I am afraid I won't get to them.

On 8/24/13, Amna wrote:

> On 8/24/13, Jaron HM wrote:

>> Ok. I used t...See More
Aug 24, 2013
James in Belgium First, I am glad to read the postings on this website. I had not heard of "DF Today". A former employee of theirs said that DF was finished and was no longer being supported. Well things change. hum.

Pacing ! There will be some very divergent opinions of pacing for DF. My version of DF, the Euro edition, has in the teacher's edition of Bl...See More
Aug 25, 2013
Jaron HM I think that most people get through Unit 5 or 6 for French I, but I think that people make the mistake of trying to divide the time evenly between the units.

Units 1 and 2 have very little content, so I tend to combine the content into one big unit and did a final project at the end. The only thing I took out of the section was time sinc...See More
Aug 25, 2013


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