Grade 7 French Immersion
7 units matched to the New Brunswick Curriculum.
Learning focus
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Comprehension. Demonstrate understanding of increasingly complex oral texts on a variety of topics using comprehension strategies.
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Production and Interaction. Share information, knowledge, ideas, and opinions on a variety of topics using various types of presentations and/or exchanges.
- Speaking and Listening: Multilingual Identities and Cultural Appreciation. Describe how languages and cultures shape learners’ own evolving identities and worldviews.
- Reading and Viewing: Vocabulary. Use expanding vocabulary knowledge to support reading and comprehension of more complex and diverse texts.
- Reading and Viewing: Fluency and Accuracy. Read a variety of complex texts with sustained accuracy and fluency.
- Reading and Viewing: Comprehension. Critically engage with a variety of more complex and diverse texts using comprehension strategies.
- Reading and Viewing: Multilingual Identities and Cultural Appreciation. Identify how languages and cultures shape learners’ own evolving identities and worldviews in written texts.
- Writing and Representing: Written Production. Write different types of texts about a variety of topics using the writing process.
- Writing and Representing: Writing Traits. Apply the writing traits to strengthen the quality of various writing pieces on different topics.
- Writing and Representing: Multilingual Identity and Cultural Appreciation. Identify as a multilingual writer.
Units
Unit 1
Le superlatif
The relative superlative (le plus, la moins…) and the absolute superlative (très, extrêmement).
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 2
Choisir le bon temps
Choosing verb tenses that fit together logically in a text, using clues such as hier, chaque été and demain.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 3
Figures de style
Recognizing comparisons, metaphors, personification and hyperbole, and how they create an effect.
Skill descriptor: Reading and Viewing: Comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
Unit 4
La poésie
Features of poetry: verses, stanzas, rhyme, theme and images, using two original poems.
Skill descriptor: Reading and Viewing: Comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
Unit 5
Défendre son opinion
Structure of an argumentative paragraph: opinion, arguments, examples and conclusion, linked with discourse markers.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 6
Lire entre les lignes
Finding implicit information from clues in a text, and identifying the theme of a story.
Skill descriptor: Reading and Viewing: Comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
Unit 7
Portrait de personnage
Describing a character with physical traits and psychological traits, and inferring personality from actions.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
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