| Curricular Competency |
Exchange ideas and information using complete sentences, both orally and in writing |
Core French 7 |
Thinking and communicating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Follow instructions to complete a task |
Core French 7 |
Thinking and communicating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use intonation and tone effectively to communicate meaning |
Core French 7 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: intonation and tone |
Elaboration: for example, using question and statement intonation patterns, using tone to express different emotions, practising cadence of spoken French |
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| Curricular Competency |
Seek clarification of meaning |
Core French 7 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Seek clarification |
Elaboration: using a variety of statements and questions (e.g., Je ne comprends pas; Répétez, s’il vous plaît; Répète, s’il te plaît; Peux-tu répéter?; Que veut dire…?; Comment dit-on…?; Comment écrit-on…?) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use various strategies to support communication |
Core French 7 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: strategies to support communication |
Elaboration: include strategies to comprehend and express meaningwill vary depending on the context and the individual studentfor example, interpreting body language; listening to intonation and expression; paraphrasing, reformulating, reiterating, and repeating; substituting words; using cognates, context, images, parts of speech, prior knowledge, reference tools, similar words in first language, and text features |
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| Curricular Competency |
Comprehend simple stories |
Core French 7 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Comprehend |
Elaboration: understand key information and events in stories |
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| Curricular Competency |
Comprehend key information and supporting details in slow, clear speech and other simple texts |
Core French 7 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: key information and supporting details |
Elaboration: answers to questions such as qui, qu’est-ce que, où, quand, combien, comment, pourquoi |
| Keyword: texts |
Elaboration: “Text” refers to all forms of oral, written, visual, and digital communication, including authentic or adapted texts (e.g., advertisements, articles, biographies, blogs, brochures, cartoons, charts, conversations, diagrams, emails, essays, films, forms, graphs, indigenous oral histories, instructions, interviews, invitations, letters, narratives, news reports, novels, nursery rhymes, online profiles, paintings, photographs, picture books, poems, presentations, songs, speeches, stories, surveys, text messages). |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize the relationships between French letter patterns and pronunciation |
Core French 7 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: letter patterns and pronunciation |
Elaboration: Identify groupings of letters that make the same sound (e.g., au, aux, eau, ô, os), rhyming words, letter patterns that have consistent pronunciations (e.g., ai, -ille, -ment, –tion), and silent letters. |
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| Big Ideas |
Learning about Francophone communities helps us develop cultural awareness. |
Core French 6 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Stories help us to acquire language and understand the world around us. |
Core French 6 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Stories |
Elaboration: Stories are narrative texts that can be oral, written, or visual. Stories can be simple or complex and may be derived from real or imagined experiences. They can be used to seek and impart knowledge, entertain, share history, and strengthen a sense of identity. Examples are indigenous oral histories, personal stories, skits, series of pictures, songs, student-created stories. |
| Keyword: understand the world |
Elaboration: exploring, for example, thoughts, feelings, knowledge, culture, and identity |
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| Big Ideas |
Reciprocal communication in French is possible using high-frequency vocabulary and sentence structures. |
Core French 6 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Reciprocal |
Elaboration: involving back-and-forth participation |
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| Big Ideas |
With simple French, we can describe others and their interests. |
Core French 6 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Using various strategies helps us understand and acquire language. |
Core French 6 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Listening and viewing with intent helps us understand French. |
Core French 6 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism |
Core French 6 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: cultural appropriation |
Elaboration: use of a cultural motif, theme, “voice,” image, knowledge, story, song, or drama, shared without permission or without appropriate context or in a way that may misrepresent the real experience of the people from whose culture it is drawn |
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