Build a strong first-semester foundation with this Beginning French Curriculum for novice high school learners. Designed as a structured French 1 curriculum for Units 1–4, these ready-to-use Comprehensible Input French lessons include daily presentations, stories, activities, assessments, videos, and teacher lesson plans. Use the four units as your first-semester framework or alongside a required district textbook.

This resource is designed for teachers who want to use French comprehensible input but still need clear sequencing, daily structure, and coverage of common first-semester French 1 topics. Each unit guides students toward understanding and using French through meaningful communication, circling, repetition, stories, and input-supported practice.

Designed to help novice learners build confidence through meaningful communication, the curriculum provides everything needed to guide students through the first stages of language acquisition while reducing teacher planning time. Whether you're teaching a full-year French 1 course or using individual units, these lessons are organized to support reading, listening, speaking, writing, and vocabulary development through comprehensible input.

This resource is ideal if:

• You are required to follow a district textbook but want to add comprehensible input.
• You want a structured entry point into CI-based instruction.
• You need organized, low-prep French lesson plans.
• You want students to practice reading, listening, speaking, and writing.
• You need lessons and assessments that support common French 1 goals.
• You want a high school French 1 curriculum framework for the first semester.

These units are the perfect complement to a district curriculum or textbook - they cover the typical vocabulary and grammar taught in the first semester of French 1, but with a more communicated approach.  Work through the unit with circling and repetition and at the end of each unit, your students will be amazed at how much they can do with the language!

Here's what you'll get in each unit:

• Daily PowerPoint lesson for you to present the material
• A student dictionary handout page
• Word wall printable posters
• Daily bell work activities
• Practice handouts to give your students practice in using the language
• A unit story based on the vocabulary of the previous lessons
• Cloze activities to accompany the unit story
• Running dictation game to accompany the unit story
• Animated video of the story
• Short assessments for the unit: reading, listening, presentational speaking, interpersonal communication and presentational writing
• It's not fair game - both in English and French versions to review the unit story

Your students will pick up the language as they work through the unit.  With a combination of the daily PowerPoint to allow for circling and repetition and the activities to give students using the language in a real-life way, you will be amazed at how much they can do by the end of the unit!  Each unit has a full set of lesson plans that will take you through everything students need to know in order to read the unit story at the end.  

There are 8 units for levels 1 and 2 French. If you would like to see what vocabulary is included in each unit, please visit http://bit.ly/2Sg3tLK.

BONUS!

When you purchase levels 1-4 as a bundle, you will also receive all 4 review escape games. The games go over the same vocabulary and topics as the units, with a plot based on the unit stories. You can see the games here:

French 1 First Semester Escape Room Bundle | 4 Novice-Low Digital Games

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sara L. says “I've been wanting to take the CI plunge and this resource did it for me! I experimented with 7th graders who have French for only 9 weeks and my level I 8th graders. I wasn't sure how the 7th graders would react but they LOVED it! I followed the resource almost exactly although I did need to spread the days out a bit. I was amazed at what students could DO at the conclusion of the unit. This did it for me, I have purchased the following units from Frenchified and am now a fan of CI! “

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mme CC says “This resource is quite the gem. It has everything you need. I love the amount of prepared comprehensible input we have! My district textbook claims to be CI based, but there isn't nearly enough input provided. As a busy teacher, I needed something with input and output tasks ready to go and this has it all! Thank you so much! I look forward to using the other units!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Hannah H says “I liked all the repetition, and I purchased another of these packs. My students like the pictures, and recognized most of the famous people used in the PowerPoint. I love how the PowerPoint was in Word, I was able to turn it into google slides (we use Schoology, and it takes Google Docs) with no problem. Great resource!  It also comes with worksheets and some graphic organizers. Love all those things. “

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  Mlle D says “Another fantastic resource that proved to be versatile and well worth the money. It was so easy to pick and choose activities to include during distance learning. I love the consistency with your units and how well laid out and organized they are. “

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