Français langue seconde - immersion 7T

Core Competencies

Communicating
 
Collaborating
Critical and Reflective Thinking
 
Creative Thinking
Personal Awareness and Responsibility
 
Positive Personal and Cultural Identity
 
Social Awareness and Responsibility

Students are expected to be able to know and understand the following in various contexts:
Students are expected to be able to do the following, using oral, written and visual formats :

Big Ideas

Big Ideas

Expressing oneself well in a language requires thinking in that language.

transfers and literal translations have a detrimental effect on meaning and the fluency of expression

The perspectives and language of authors
creators of any oral or written message
reflect the linguistic and cultural variations in the French-speaking world.
All texts
oral, written, visual
are anchored in a context that must be considered in order to comprehend the message in its entirety.
The behaviour of the characters in a text
oral, written, visual
allows us to understand how the society in which they live functions.
The form
the way in which the statement is formulated
of a text
oral, written, visual
plays as important a role as its content
the statement, what is said
in conveying a message.

Content

Learning Standards

Content

communication strategies:
cultural and historical elements
literary elements:
text organization:
language elements:
  • structure of affirmative and negative complex sentences
  • structure of interrogative sentences
    subject-verb inversion, use of interrogative pronouns
  • simple relative pronouns
    qui, que, quoi, où
  • adverb formation
     feminine form of regular adjective + “ment”
  • comparative
    with adjectives
    and superlative
    relative (with adjectives) and absolute (with adverbs)
    structures
  • synonyms, homonyms and antonyms
  • verb moods and tenses
    third group verbs in the present indicative, present perfect (“passé composé”), imperfect (“imparfait”) and present imperative tenses
    associated with the genres being studied
revision strategies
rereading, consultation of reference tools, use of a revision grid, etc.

Curricular Competency

Learning Standards

Curricular Competency

Exploring and Reflecting

Identify examples of linguistic and cultural variety in the French-speaking world
Compare cultural elements in Aboriginal and other texts
oral, written, visual
Identify the secondary ideas in a text
oral, written, visual
Formulate hypotheses based on textual cues
Interpret and respond to a text
oral, written, visual
Gain a better understanding of the plot by determining the roles played by the various characters
Identify poetic elements and understand their effects on the reader

Creating and Communicating

Express and justify an opinion using varied and appropriate vocabulary
Engage in a spontaneous conversation, taking into account the non-verbal behaviour of the other person
Read with fluency, pronouncing the liaisons between words
Create a character portrayal including physical characteristics and psychological traits
Summarize the main idea in a text
oral, written, visual
in a clear and well-organized way
Organize texts
oral, written, visual
into paragraphs with transitions and varied sentence structures
Write well-structured texts
oral, written, visual
that convey a message clearly and effectively
Revise one’s work by referring to the spelling and grammar rules learned