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Level 3 · Intermediate · 12 assignments

Voix du monde 3

The book re-teaches the impératif, passé composé, imparfait and futur as chapter topics, so those assignments double as the review. New content: the passé composé of reflexive verbs, le conditionnel, and le subjonctif présent.

How this curriculum maps to the textbook

Voix 3 has 7 chapters. This curriculum has 12 assignments across eight tenses. The verb list is the 72-verb core set plus servir and battre, which Chapter 1 names.

#VerbMaster AssignmentTextbook ChapterTense
1Ch 1 — Révision du présent (servir, mettre, battre)Ch 1present
2Ch 1 — L'impératif (affirmatif)Ch 1affirmative imperative
3Ch 1 — L'impératif (négatif)Ch 1negative imperative
4Ch 3 — Le passé composé (avoir et être)Ch 3passé composé
5Ch 4 — Savoir et connaîtreCh 4present
6Ch 4 — Le présent des verbes réfléchisCh 4present
7Ch 4 — Le passé composé des verbes réfléchisCh 4passé composé
8Ch 5 — L'imparfaitCh 5imparfait
9Ch 6 — Le futur simpleCh 6futur simple
10Ch 6 — Le conditionnelCh 6conditionnel
11Ch 7 — Le subjonctif des verbes réguliersCh 7subjonctif présent
12Ch 7 — Le subjonctif : verbes irréguliersCh 7subjonctif présent

Chapters with no VerbMaster assignment: Chapter 2 (description, nationalities, comparatives and superlatives). The usage topics elsewhere (relative pronouns, passé composé versus imparfait, subjonctif versus indicatif) ride on tenses already in scope.

When to start, and pacing

French 3 students should start in week 1 or 2. Chapter 1 opens with the present-tense review and the impératif, so assignments 1 to 3 line up with the first weeks.

Seven chapters over a 36-week year is roughly five weeks per chapter. Suggested cadence: 2 to 3 weeks per assignment, with 1 week for assignment 5 (savoir, connaître). The Chapter 4 block (assignments 5 to 7) and the Chapter 7 subjonctif block (11 and 12) usually need the most time.

Auto-generated due dates

VerbMaster's default spacing is 1 week per assignment. Plan to adjust it when you set up the class.

No separate review block

Voix 3 has no front-loaded review block. The book itself re-teaches the impératif (Chapter 1), the passé composé (Chapter 3), the imparfait (Chapter 5) and the futur simple (Chapter 6) as chapter topics, so those assignments serve as the review.

  • Continuing students (used VerbMaster with Voix 2): assignments 1 to 4, 8 and 9 show complete on arrival. Their work is Mastery Reviews until assignment 5.
  • New students: work through the assignments in order. The review assignments are large (all 74 verbs in a tense) but spaced repetition concentrates practice on the forms each student misses.

Notes on specific assignments

Reflexive verbs in Chapter 4

Reflexive verbs are kept out of the Chapter 1 present review and the Chapter 3 passé composé assignment on purpose, so that Chapter 4's two reflexive assignments (present, then passé composé) contain them, matching the book. A continuing student who mastered the present-tense reflexives in Voix 1 or 2 will find assignment 6 complete. Assignment 7 is new for everyone unless they drilled it in the Voix 2 Passé composé avec être assignment, in which case it shows complete as well.

Assignment 7 covers the eight reflexive verbs in the verb list. If you add other reflexive verbs to the curriculum in the editor, their passé composé forms will land in assignment 4 (Chapter 3) rather than assignment 7, because VerbMaster groups them with the other être verbs. To keep an added reflexive verb in assignment 7, move it there by hand after saving.

Servir, mettre and battre

Chapter 1 names servir, mettre and battre. Mettre is already in the core set. Servir and battre are added to the verb list for this curriculum, so they appear in every tense from Chapter 1 onward.

The subjonctif split

The book teaches the subjonctif of regular verbs first, then irregular verbs. Assignment 11 holds the verbs whose subjonctif is built regularly from the ils stem, including the reflexive verbs. Assignment 12 holds the verbs with a stem change in the nous and vous forms (acheter, appeler, boire, prendre, venir, voir and others), the true irregulars (aller, faire, pouvoir, savoir, vouloir, valoir), and avoir and être. If your Chapter 7 outline splits these differently, adjust the two assignments in the editor.