The chapters introduce the foundations of French progressively and can be followed in order or consulted individually.

Chapitre préliminaire – First contact with French

Content

• Introduction
• Vocabulary: je me présente, les matières, l’alphabet, la grammaire de Tex
• Phonétique: introduction
• Grammar: overview & characters
• Videos / Vocabulaire en contexte

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Practice

• Getting familiar with French
• Sound recognition
• Songs: Foux da fafa (fun!) & Summer in Paris

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Chapitre 1 – Bonjour!

Content

• Greetings and basic introductions
• Classroom vocabulary and useful “in class” phrases
• Numbers 1–69
• Dates (days, calendar, birthdays)
• Pronouns + être (to be)
• Gender + nouns + articles (definite / indefinite)
• Voilà vs. il y a
• French accents (pronunciation)

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Practice

• Song: Comment tu t’appelles ? (Mathieu Boogaerts)
• Self-introductions (je me présente)
• Who is it?” mini-dialogues (qui est-ce ?)
• Classroom interaction (teacher/student phrases)
• Listening: “Bienvenue à Lyon” + classroom context clips

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Chapitre 2 – Me voici!

Content

• Personal profile (fiche d’identité)
• Personal questions and answers
• Family vocabulary
• Friends and relationships
• Interrogative words (who, what, etc.)
• Telling time (l’heure & l’heure officielle)
• Hobbies and activities (passe-temps et activités)
• Adverbs
• Continents, countries and nationalities
• Phonetics: French sound symbols
• Grammar focus from Tex’s French Grammar:
  • avoir (to have)
  • Regular –er verbs (present tense)
  • Possessive determiners
  • Yes/no question forms (est-ce que, n’est-ce pas)
  • Basic negation (ne … pas)
  • Intro to adverbs
  • Interrogative/exclamative quel
  • Intro to adjectives
  • Formation & placement of adjectives

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Practice

• Vocabulary in context (e.g., telling time)
• Short dialogues: family and friends
• Listening practice with videos (e.g., Franck Guilloteau – me voici, ma famille)
• Conversations about hobbies and daily activities
• Describing personal profiles
• Activities using numbers and time telling
• Interactive exercises and quizzes (verb practice & testez-vous!)

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Chapitre 3 – Les vacances en France

Content

• Weather and seasons (le temps, les saisons)
• Geography basics (la géographie, points cardinaux, L’Hexagone)
• Vacation activities and transport vocabulary (les activités, les transports)
• Numbers 70–100
• Phonetics: accentuation
• Grammar focus from Tex’s French Grammar:
  • faire (to do / to make) & expressions
  • Irregular -ir verbs (partir, sortir, dormir)
  • -er verbs with stem changes (present tense)
  • aller (to go)
  • futur proche (near future)
  • Prepositions with places
  • Verb practice and reference tools

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Practice

• Song: Ma Louisianne (Zachary Richard)
• Vocabulary preparation and drills
• Context videos featuring:
  • weather questions (“Quel temps fait-il?”)
  • at the lake (au lac)
  • in town (en ville)
  • at the train station (à la gare)
  • exploring L’Hexagone
• Interview clips with French speakers (weather, weekend plans, vacations)
• Interview clips with UT Austin students (same topics)
• Online grammar & verb practice (testez-vous!, verb conjugation reference)

Internet activity: vacation & weekend ideas

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Chapitre 4 – Les gens

Content

• Vocabulary:
  • Face and physical features (le visage)
  • Colors (les couleurs)
  • Physical portrait (le portrait physique)
  • Moral/character portrait (le portrait moral)
  • Adjectifs qui précèdent le nom (adjectives that come before the noun)
  • Pronominal verbs (verbes pronominaux)
• Phonetics:
  • French consonant /R/ sound
• Grammar from Tex’s French Grammar:
  • Definite articles with physical characteristics
  • Irregular adjectives
  • Adjectives that precede the noun
  • c’est vs il/elle est
  • Pronominal verbs
  • Comparisons with adjectives
• Videos / Multimedia:
  • Vocabulary in context: face, colors, physical portrait, moral portrait, daily routine

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Practice

• Song: Comme d’habitude (Claude François)
• Listening & contextual videos (vocab in context + interviews)
  • Videos on facial features, colors, portraits & routines
• Interviews with French speakers about stereotypes and personal descriptions
• Interviews with UT Austin students about the same topics
• Internet activity: se rencontrer (meeting each other)

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Chapitre 5 – Bon appétit!

Content

• Vocabulary:
  • At the table (à table)
  • Market and food shops (au marché, au supermarché)
  • Butcher (à la boucherie, à la charcuterie, à la poissonnerie)
  • Grocery and bakery (à l’épicerie, à la boulangerie-pâtisserie)
  • Eating out (au café, au restaurant)
  • Typical French dishes (des plats typiquement français)
  • Expressions of quantity, adjectives, verbs related to food.
• Phonetics: syllables and rhythm in French.
• Grammar highlights from Tex’s French Grammar:
  • Partitive articles (e.g., du, de la)
  • Expressions of quantity
  • Present tense of regular -ir verbs
  • Some irregular -re verbs (like prendre)
  • boire, croire, voir
  • Interrogative words (e.g., où, quand, comment)
  • Subject/verb inversion for questions.

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Practice

• Song: Les cornichons (Nino Ferrer)
• Vocabulary in context: videos showing food shopping and eating
  • At the market: fruits & vegetables
  • Visiting a poissonnerie, épicerie, bakery/pastry shop
  • At the restaurant: starters, main courses, desserts.
• Interviews: French speakers and UT Austin students talking about food, meals, and eating habits.
• Interactive activities:
  • Testez-vous! quizzes for this chapter
  • Verb practice and conjugation tools
  • Internet activity (e.g., au restaurant scenario)

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Chapitre 6 – La ville

Content

• Vocabulary:
  • la ville (the city / town)
  • les petits commerces (small shops)
  • s’orienter (finding your way, giving directions)
  • les nombres ordinaux (ordinal numbers)
  • verbes qui prennent être (verbs that take être in the passé composé)
  • autres verbes (other verbs)
  • participes passés irréguliers (irregular past participles)
• Phonetics: French vowels /i/ /y/ /u/
• Grammar from Tex’s French Grammar:
  • Regular -re verbs (present tense)
  • Contractions of à and de with the definite article
  • Demonstrative determiners (ce, cet, cette, ces)
  • Passé composé with avoir
  • Passé composé with être

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Practice

• Song: Sous le ciel de Paris (Yves Montand)
• Vocabulary in context:
  • At l’aéroport Roissy Charles de Gaulle (airport)
  • Exploring la ville de Lyon
  • Visiting Chamonix (mountains)
• Interviews:
  • Les Français à Austin on the weekend and their lives (Franck, J-C, Stéphanie, Virginie)
  • UT Austin students (Blake, Karen, Laila) talking about the weekend and their daily life
• Internet activity:
  • Googlemaps.fr activity (practical city exploration task)

👉 Link: Go to Chapitre 6

Chapitre 7 – Milestones

Content

• Vocabulary:
  • birthdays
  • graduation
  • gatherings with friends and family
  • invitations, congratulations, and messages
• Phonetics: semi-vowels
• Grammar from Tex’s French Grammar:
  • Irregular –ir verbs (e.g. ouvrir)
  • Direct object pronouns
  • Indirect object pronouns
  • Imparfait: habits, descriptions, past states
  • Using the imparfait to talk about memories and routines in the past

⚠️  No links to the textbook materials are provided for this chapter, as Chapter 7 does not align with the instructor’s values.

Practice

• Talking about personal milestones
• Listening activities: people talking about important moments in their lives
• Speaking activities:
  • describing your an important achievement
  • talking about what people used to do (quand j’étais petit(e)…)
• Internet activity: Creating a neutral greeting card or invitation (graduation, birthday)

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Chapitre 8 – La maison

Content

• Vocabulary:
  • à la maison (at home)
  • les pièces (rooms in a house/apartment)
  • les tâches domestiques (household chores)
  • adjectifs (descriptive adjectives)
  • verbes (home/daily-life verbs)
  • verbes réfléchis (reflexive verbs)
  • verbes réciproques (reciprocal verbs)
• Phonetics: Les voyelles moyennes
• Grammar from Tex’s French Grammar:
  • Passé composé of pronominal verbs
  • Pronoun y
  • Pronoun en
  • Imperative mood
  • Venir (to come)

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Practice

• Talking about where you live and your home
• Listening activities:
  • people talking about their homes
  • people describing daily household activities
• Speaking activities:
  • describing your home or apartment
  • talking about household chores and daily routine
• Internet activity:
  • Finding and describing an apartment to rent
  • furnshing an apartment
  • exploring different types of housing (urban and rural)

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Chapitre 9 – Médias et communications

Content

• Vocabulary related to media and communication
• Phonetics: La tension musculaire des voyelles françaises /i/ et /o/
• Grammar from Tex’s French Grammar:
  • relative pronouns: qui and que
  • alternate negative forms (ne⋯jamais, rien, personne, etc.)
  • one-word negative structures (si, jamais, etc.)
  • dire, lire, écrire (present tense)
  • modal verbs: vouloir, pouvoir, devoir
  • narration: passé composé vs. imparfait

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Practice

• Talking about media and communication
• Listening activities: people talking about media and the internet
• Speaking activities:
  • describing how you use media (TV, Internet, radio)
  • talking about what people do with media in daily life
• Interviews: French speakers and UT Austin students talking about food, meals, and eating habits.
• Interactive activities:
  • exploring French-language media online
  • comparing French online news and French social media use

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Chapitre 10 – Moder, forme et santé

Content

• Vocabulary:
  • Fashion (la mode)
  • Hobbies (les loisirs)
  • Fitness and health (la forme et la santé)
  • The body (le corps)
  • Interrogative and impersonal expressions (expressions interrogratives et impersonnelles)
• Phonetics: French nasal vowels /ã/, /ɛ̃/, /õ/ et /œ/.
• Grammar from Tex’s French Grammar:
  • Irregular -re verbs (e.g., mettre)
  • Interrogative pronouns
  • Impersonal verbs & expressions (il faut, il est important…)
  • Disjunctive pronouns

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Practice

• Talking about wellness and personal interests
• Listening activities: people talking about their life style and freetime.
• Speaking activities:
  • Describing your own routine for health and fitness
  • Talking about hobbies and interests
• Internet activity: changer de look (exploring style changes and personal preferences)

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Chapitre 11 – Les études en France

Content

• Vocabulary:
  • les études secondaires et supérieures (secondary & university studies)
  • un stage, un diplôme (internship, degree)
  • les matières et les cours (subjects and classes)
  • adjectifs (chargé(e), occupé(e), prochain(e), dernier/dernière)
  • verbes liés aux études (s’inscrire, suivre, apprendre, réussir, etc.)
• Phonetics: le e muet (silent e)
• Grammar from Tex’s French Grammar:
  • savoir vs connaître (present tense)
  • re verbs (irregular) like suivre, vivre
  • Expression with il y a
  • regular and irregular subjunctive
  • usage of subjunctive for obligation

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Practice

• Talking about education and school life
• Song: Sacré Charlemagne (France Gall)
• Listening activities: people talking about school and university life
• Speaking activities:
  • describing your school/university experiences
  • talking about schedules, subjects, homework, and exams
• Internet activity: le bac activity, exploring the French high school diploma/exam system

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Chapitre 12 – La vie professionnelle

Content

• Vocabulary:
  • le monde du travail (the working world)
  • les métiers (professions)
  • adjectifs (adjectives related to jobs and work)
  • verbes (verbs related to the workplace)
• Phonetics: la liaison.
• Grammar highlights from Tex’s French Grammar:
  • Subjunctive usage: doubt (expressing uncertainty or doubt)
  • depuis, pendant, pour (using for in time expressions)
  • Adverbs: formation and placement
  • Comparative and superlative of adverbs
  • bon / meilleur vs. bien / mieux
  • Simple future tense (regular and irregular forms)

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Practice

• Song: Travailler (TTC)
• Listening activities:
  • people talking about how long they’ve worked (depuis quand?)
  • people describing their job and occupation
  • talking about seasonal work and vacation plans
• Speaking activities:
  • describing your ideal profession
  • talking about how long you have worked or studied for a job
  • asking and answering questions about work conditions
• Interactive activities: le travail de mes rêves

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Chapitre 13 – Mes plans pour le futur

Content

• Vocabulary:
  • Finanes (les finances)
  • Relationships (les relations personnelles)
• Phonetics: les groupes rythmiques.
• Grammar highlights from Tex’s French Grammar:
  • Future tense (regular & irregular forms)
  • Conditional tense (politeness, hypotheses, wishes)
  • Subjunctive (expressing emotions, desires, opinions)
  • Si clauses (real and possible conditions)

⚠️No links to the textbook materials are provided for this chapter, as Chapter 13 does not align with the instructor’s values

Practice

• Song: La vie en rose (Édith Piaf)
• Talking about future plans and life choices
• Listening people discussing their future goals
• Interactive activity: exploring practical topics such as budgeting, career planning, or life decisions.

👉 Link: Go to Chapitre 13