The points marked with a * are highlighted in the lesson (concentrate on these sections).
Lesson 1 – Orientation
Lesson 2 – Genesis I
- Expressions for greeting and taking leave of others
- Personal subject pronouns (2.8-2.11) *
- Forms of the verb aller in the present tense (2.12, 2.13) *
- Two different uses of aller:
talking about going places and talking about health
Lesson 3 – Genesis II
- Definite and indefinite articles (3.13-3.22) *
- Masculine and feminine forms (3.23-3.26) *
- Infinitive of verbs
- The immediate future tense (3.29-3.34) *
Lesson 4 – Genesis III
- Gender of nouns; agreement in gender and number (4.12-4.15) *
- Elision and liaison
- Masculine and feminine endings, review and extension (4.23-4.28)
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- Forms of –er verbs in the present tense (4.32-4.35) *
- Forms of être in the present tense (4.36-4.40) *
Lesson 5 – Families
- Numbers from 1 to 29 (5.6-5.11) *
-? Forms of avoir in the present tense (5.12, 5.13) *
- Avoir and age ( 5.14, 5.15) *
- Imperative of –er verbs (5.18-5.22) *
- Il faut and infinitives (5.23-5.26) *
- Negative expressions with ne…pas (5.27-5.30) *
- Negative of un, une, des
Lesson 6 – Portraits I
- Avoir l’air verses être with adjectives
- Masculine and feminine forms (6.11-6.16) *
- Faire, present indicative (6.23) *
- Faire and sports (6.24, 6.25) *
- Du, de la, de l’ / pas de, pas d’
- Questions with est-ce que
- Numbers from 20 to 69 (6.29, 6.30) *
Lesson 7 – Portraits II
- Numbers from 70 to 100 (7.8-7.10) *
- Masculine and feminine endings, review and extension
- Questions using intonation, inversion, and est-ce que (7.21-7.27)
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- Qu’est-ce que c’est?, qui est-ce que c’est?
- Questions with qu’est-ce que…?, qui est-ce qui…?
Lesson 8 – Genealogy
- Numbers from 100 to 999,000,000 (8.6-8.9) *
- Partitive use of definite articles, positive and negative (8.10-8.15)
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- Possessive adjectives, single possessor (8.16-8.23) *
- Identify questions with c’est and est-ce
Lesson 9 – Vacation in Brittany I
- Possessive adjectives, plural possessor (9.8-9.11) *
- Use of à: destination, allocation
- Faire de…verses jouer à…(9.15, 9.16) *
- Stressed pronouns (9.18-9.20) *
- Quelqu’un / une personne; quelqu’un / personne
- En (il en reste)
Lesson 10 – Vacation in Brittany II
- Present tense with il y a… que, ça fait…que (10.16-10.18)
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- On
- Venir, present indicative (10.21, 10.22) *
- Connaître and savoir (10.23, 10.24) *
- Stressed pronouns, review and extension; use of stressed pronouns
in comparisons (10.27-10.29) *
- Possessive adjectives (10.30-10.33) *
- Demonstrative adjectives (10.34-10.37) *
- Masculine/feminine forms, review and extension
Lesson 11 – Encounters I
- Il fait with weather
- Present tense with depuis
- Exclamations with quel, quelle, quels, quelles
- Immediate past tense: venir de + infinitive (11.22-11.25) *
- Direct object pronouns le, la, les, me, te, nous, vous (11.26-11.34)
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- Reflexive pronouns (11.35-11.40) *
Lesson 12 – Encounters II
- Interrogative adjective quel (12.7, 12.8) *
- Reciprocal verbs
- Imperative and personal pronouns; negative imperative (12.15-12.21)
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- Pouvoir, present indicative
- Suivre, present indicative
- Sortir, partir, present indicative
- Prendre, apprendre, comprendre, present indicative
- Verb patterns in the present indicative (12.23-12.37) *
- Masculine and feminine forms, review and extenstion
Lesson 13 – Encounters III
- Masculine and feminine forms, review and extension
- Interrogative pronoun lequel, laquelle, lesquels, lesquelles (13.23,
13.24) *
- Demonstrative pronoun celui, celle, ceux, celles (13.25-13.28) *
- Attendre, present indicative
Lesson 14 – Getting Underway I
- Avoir raison, avoir tort
- Dire, present tense; parler and dire (4.13-4.17) *
- C’est and il est with expressions of time
- Vivre, present tense
- Verb patterns, present tense
- Imperfect tense (14.30-14.39) *
- Masculine and feminine forms, review and extension (14.40-14.41)
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Lesson 15 – Getting Underway II
- Use of prepositions with place-names (15.17, 15.18) *
- Contraction of à and de with le and les, review and extension
(15.21-15.26) *
- En, review and extension
- Mener, amener, emmener, promener
- Verb forms, review and extension
Lesson 16 – Getting Underway III
- Ne…aucun
- Y and place names (16.7, 16.8) *
- Devoir
- The passé composé
- Vouloir and pouvoir, review and extension (16.17-16.21) *
- Connaître and savoir, review (16.28-16.30) *
- Verb forms (16.31-16.34) *
Lesson 17 – In All Labor There is Profit I
- Tonic stress
- Masculine and feminine forms (17.6-17.13) *
- C’est verses il / elle est (17.14-17.18) *
- Savoir verses connaître (17.19-17.21) *
- On, review and extension *
- Reflexive verbs used passively
- The imperfect, review (17.27-17.32) *
-Ne…plus (17.33-17.36) *
Lesson 18 - In All Labor There is Profit II
- Masculine and feminine forms
- Stressed pronouns, review (18.16, 18.17) *
- Imperative and direct object pronouns (18.18-18.26) *
- Possessives, review
- Indirect object pronouns (18.29-18.34) *
- Toujours, quelquefois, ne…jamais (18.35-18.37) *
Lesson 19 – Entering School Zone I
- The passé composé (19.17-19.25) *
- Compounds of prendre
- Plaire (19.28-19.35) *
- Adverbs
Lesson 20 – Entering School Zone II
- Verb forms (20.8-20.11, 20.30) *
- Stressed pronouns, review
- Ne…jamais, ne…rien (20.18-20.21) *
- Mettre, boire (20.31, 20.32) *
- Passé composé and pronouns (20.34-20.42) *
Lesson 21 – Entering School Zone III
- Masculine and feminine forms, review and extension (21.9-21.12) *
- Faire rire, faire croire (21.16, 21.17) *
- Recevoir
- Savoir and infinitives (21.25-21.26) *
- Passé composé and negatives, review
- Agreement of past participles with avoir (21.33-21.36) *
Lesson 22 – Fishing for an Invitation I
- The passé composé of reflexive verbs (22.20-22.22)
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- Agreement of past participles; reflexive verbs (22.23, 22.24) *
- Verbs conjugated with avoir or être (22.27-22.31) *
- Agreement of past participles; verbs conjugated with être (22.32-22.33)
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- Faire plaisir
Lesson 23 – Fishing for an Invitation II
- Se demander, s’en faire
- The future tense (23.21-23.28) *
Lesson 24 – Bills of Fare I
- The plus-que parfait
- Servir (24.12, 24.13) *
- Future of irregular verbs (24.18-24.25) *
- Relative pronouns qui and que
Lesson 25 – Bills of Fare II
- The imperative, review
- The imperative with pronouns, en, and y (25.16-25.18) *
- Partitive en, review (25.19, 25.20) *
- The imperative with indirect object pronouns, review (25.21-25.24)
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- Position of en with personal pronouns *
- En used with determinatives
- Demonstrative and indirect object pronouns, review
Lesson 26 – Bills of Fare III
- Ne…que (26.11-26.14) *
- Definite article verses partitive article
- Expressions of quantity (26.22-26.25) *
- Vowel change e/è (26.26-26.29) *
- Endings of the present indicative, review (26.32-26.37) *
Lesson 27 – All Manner of Transportation I
- Se tromper
- Avoir peur
- Tenir à
- Y and en, review and extension (27.15-27.19)
- A and en with means of transportation *
- The conditional (27.24-27.28) *
- Masculine and feminine forms –eur, -euse, -eux, -euse
Lesson 28 – All Manner of Transportation II
- Expressions of time: en avance, à l’heure, en retard (28.6,
28.7) *
- Il y a une heure, tout à l’heure, dans l’heure (28.8-28.11)
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- Pendant, depuis, pour (28.17, 28.18) *
- Faire mal, avoir mal
- Expressions of quantity, review (28.24, 28.25) *
- The conditional, review
- Y, en, and pronouns with the imperative, review
- Plural of words ending in -au, -eau, -al, and -ail
- Masculine and feminine forms -l, -lle
Lesson 29 – All Manner of Transportation III
- Arriver: ça arrive!
- Mettre and expressions of time
- The conditional, review
- The past conditional (29.27-29.29) *
Lesson 30 – All Manner of Transportation IV
- Indefinite expressions
- Forms of the present indicative, review
- Forms of the future, review
- Past participles ending in -é and -u (30.27-30.29) *
- Imperfect and passé composé, review
- Articles and prepositions, review
Lesson 31 – All Manner of Transportation V
- Nouns ending in –age
- Past participles ending in -i, -is, -it, and -rt, review (31.19-31.24)
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- Agreement of past particles, review (31.25-31.27) *
- Present conditional, past conditional, plus-que parfait, review
Lesson 32 – Residences I
- Expressing strangeness: drôle de
- Expressing opposites: in-, im-, il-, dé-
- Word families: im-, in-, -able; -eur, -euse; -eur, -age; -cteur,
-ctrice
- Vocabulary for personal grooming, review
- Appuyer, essuyer, ennuyer
- Eteindre, s’éteindre, peindre
- Passé composé, review
- Two different aspects of the past: imperfect and passé composé
(3.28-32.33) *
- Past conditional, review
Lesson 33 – Residences II
- Indefinite personal pronouns soi
- Lack of self-control: s’empêcher de
- Protest: Si on ne peut plus…; refutation: pas plus…pour ça;
disagreement: pas si…que ça; restriction: il n’y en a que pour…
- Time: en une heure
- Need and exigency: Il (me) faut + nous
- Irregular imperatives: être, avoir, vouloir, savoir (33.31,
33.32) *
- Conditional, review
- Imperfect and passé composé, review and extension (33.34-33.36)
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Lesson 34 – Residences III
- Il faut + expression of time + pour
- Adopting behaviors: faire l’idiot, faire le maçon, etc.
- Nouns ending in –age, review and extension
- Servir and derivatives
- Transformations: rendre + adjective (34.19, 34.20) *
- Verbs with vowel changes, review and extension
- Causative faire (34.23-34.26) *
- Article, partitives and pronouns, review
- Imperfect and passé composé, review
Lesson 35 – Residences IV
- Intensives: joliment, drôlement, c’est fou ce que…, etc.
- Indirect questions ce que c’est, qui c’est
- A verses de before infinitives (35.23-35.26) *
- En and the present participle (35.27-25.28) *
- Verbs of evolution ending in –ir: vieillir, grossir, etc.
- Negative ni…ni… (35.32-35.34) *
- Need: avoir besoin
Lesson 36 – Entertainment I
- The word family lumière, allumer, illuminer
- Conjugation of verbs like éteindre
- Se mettre en congé / prendre congé
- Indefinites + de + adjective (36.16-36.19) *
- Rien, review and expansion
- The subjunctive: formation (36.23-36.29) *
- Reflexive verbs, review
Lesson 37 – Entertainment II
- Different uses of coup
- Time: en deux minutes / dans deux minutes
- Verbs with vowel changes: jeter, acheter, review
- Position of direct and indirect object pronouns (37.20-37.23) *
- Irregular subjunctives (37.24-37.31) *
- The past subjunctive
- Forms of aller, review
Lesson 38 – Entertainment III
- C’est là que, c’est…où with places
- Position of jamais, toujours, souvent (38.17-38.23) *
- Position of direct and indirect object pronouns (38.24, 38.25)
- Verbs ending in –yer (38.26-38.29) *
- Irregular subjunctives (38.30-38.33) *
- Pouvoir, vouloir, review
- The imperfect, review
Lesson 39 – Entertainment IV
- Ne…que, review
- Forms of the subjunctive, review
- Falloir and the subjunctive (39.11, 39.12) *
- Irregular subjunctives: aller, falloir, valoir, vouloir (39.17, 39.18)
- Subjunctive with expressions of doubt (39.17, 39.18) *
- Ça fait + infinitive
- Position of object pronouns, recapitulation
- Croire, vivre, devoir, se plaindre, craindre, review
Lesson 40 – Entertainment V
- Verbs + à with an object, review and extension
- Personne, rien as subjects and objects (40.16-40.18) *
- The future and object pronouns, review
- The conditional, review
- Pronouns y, and en
- Passer, faire, pouvoir, review
Lesson 41 – A Matter of Chance I
- Tenter verses tendre
- Position of rien and personne in compound tenses (41.16, 41.17) *
- The subjunctive with expressions of preference
- The subjunctive with conditional expressions (41.20-41.22) *
- Past tenses, review
- The past conditional, review
- Verb forms, review
- Avoir besoin and pronouns, review
- Prepositions
Lesson 42 – A Matter of Chance II
- Fractions (42.11, 42.12) *
- Pas encore, déjà, dès
- Position of déjà and encore (42.16, 42.17) *
- Plus rien, jamais rien (42.18-42.21) *
- Subjunctive, review
- Subjunctive with pourvu que, à moins que, bien que (42.23-42.29)
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- Ne…aucun, ne…que, review
- Future tense, review
- Stressed pronouns, review
- Imperative + pronouns, review
Lesson 43 – Think Vacation I
- Comparatives and superlatives (43.15-43.18) *
- Superlative and subjunctive (43.19-43.23) *
- Forms of the subjunctive, review
- Conditional, review and extension
- Prepositions
Lesson 44 – Think Vacation II
- Subjunctive indicating purpose (44.16-44.18) *
- Subjunctive and implicit negation (44.19-44.21) *
- Demonstrative pronouns, review
- Relative pronouns ce qui, ce que, ce qu’ (44.23-44.30) *
- Jamais, rien, personne, review
- Ne…que, …plus, …rien, …jamais, tout ce que and subjunctive, review
- Passé composé and imperfect, review
Lesson 45 – Think Vacation III
- Personne and rien in simple tenses, review and extension (45.19-45.22)
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- Use of the subjunctive in relative clauses (45.23-45.25) *
- Position of y and en, review
- Avoir besoin, avoir envie, review
Lesson 46 – Getting Away
- The conditional in intentional expressions (46.24, 46.25) *
- Avoir besoin + indicative verses il faut + subjunctive, review
- Il faut and nouns, review
- Prepositions, review
- Relative pronouns qui, que, and dont (46,34-46.38) *
Lesson 47 – What Variety!
- Tout (47.10-47.13) *
- Tout / rien, personne / tout le monde (47.14-47.16) *
- Restrictive negative ne…que (47.17-47.21) *
- Subjunctive with expressions of doubt, review
- Il faut + subjunctive, review
- Vouloir, pouvoir, review
- Connaître and savoir, review
- Forms of the subjunctive, review
- Qui, que, dont, review
- Y and en, review
- Demonstratives and relatives, review
Lesson 48 – What Riches!
- Ce qui, ce que, ce dont, review and extension (48.13-48.15)
- Penser à verses penser de
- Laisser
- The future tense, review
- Use of the subjunctive with demands, review
- Possessive pronouns (48.30-48.32)
Lesson 49 – What a Nightmare!
- Arriver à
- Douter verses se douter
- The future of the past (49.23-49.24) *
- The subjunctive, review and extension (49.25-49.28) *
- Verbs like apercevoir, forms and functions
- Verbs like paraître, forms and functions
- Present participle, review and extension
Lesson 50 – More Variety, More Riches
- Penser de verses penser à (50.6, 50.7) *
- Articles and prepositions with geographical names (50.8-50.17) *
- Articles and prepositions with names of mountains (50.18-50.22)
- Articles and partitives, review
- The subjunctive, review and extension (50.23-50.25) *
- A and de with infinitives, review and extension
Lesson 51 – Parade and Review
- Levels of speech (51.8, 51.9) *
- Position of pronouns, review
- Use of pronouns, y, and en with imperatives, review and extension
(51.13-51.18) *
- Faire, review
- Faire de
- Negative infinitives (51.24, 51.25) *
- Pour + price, place name, duration
Lesson 52 – All’s Well that Ends Well