| Curricular Competency |
Identify a Francophone cultural festival or celebration in Canada |
Core French 5 |
Personal and social awareness |
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| Curricular Competency |
Demonstrate awareness of connections between First Peoples communities and the French language |
Core French 5 |
Personal and social awareness |
| Keyword: First Peoples communities and the French language |
Elaboration: for example, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities in Canada where French is spoken (e.g., Huron Wendake Nation, Innu Nation, Micmac Nation, and Mohawk Nation in Quebec; Métis communities in Baie St. Paul, MB, Fort Nelson, BC, and Île-à-la-Crosse, SK) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Identify Francophone communities across Canada |
Core French 5 |
Personal and social awareness |
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| Curricular Competency |
Express themselves and comprehend others through various modes of presentation |
Core French 5 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: modes of presentation |
Elaboration: making use of those best suited to their own and others’ diverse abilities (e.g., digital, visual, and verbal modes; students may make use of aids such as charts, graphics, illustrations, music, organizers, photographs, tables, and videos) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Participate, with support, in simple interactions involving everyday situations |
Core French 5 |
Thinking and communicating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Respond to simple commands and instructions |
Core French 5 |
Thinking and communicating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize the relationships between intonation and meaning |
Core French 5 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: intonation and meaning |
Elaboration: for example, recognizing whether someone is making a statement or asking a question and how it relates to their message; noticing and practising cadence of spoken French |
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| Curricular Competency |
Seek clarification of meaning |
Core French 5 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Seek clarification |
Elaboration: using common statements and questions, as well as gestures (e.g., Je ne comprends pas; Répétez, s’il vous plaît; Répète, s’il te plaît; Comment dit-on…?) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use various strategies to support communication |
Core French 5 |
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 |
Interpret non-verbal cues to increase comprehension |
Core French 5 |
Thinking and communicating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Comprehend simple stories |
Core French 5 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Comprehend |
Elaboration: understandkey information and events in stories |
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| Curricular Competency |
Comprehend key information in slow, clear speech and other simple texts |
Core French 5 |
Thinking and communicating |
| 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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| Big Ideas |
Acquiring French provides opportunities to explore our own cultural identity from a new perspective. |
Core French 9 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Francophone creative works are expressions of Francophone cultures. |
Core French 9 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: creative works |
Elaboration: works of artistic expression that represent the experience of the people from whose culture they are drawn (e.g., architecture, dance, filmmaking, musical composition, painting, poetry and prose, sculpture, theatre). |
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| Big Ideas |
We can share our experiences and perspectives through stories. |
Core French 9 |
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. |
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