Grade 8 French Immersion
11 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. Analyze 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
Les registres de langue
Recognizing colloquial, standard and formal language, and choosing the right register for the audience.
Skill descriptor: Speaking and Listening: Oral Production and Interaction · speaking about oneself and the world in French
Unit 2
Parler et se faire comprendre
Verbal communication (intonation, volume, speed, tone, pauses) and non-verbal communication (gestures and facial expressions).
Skill descriptor: Speaking and Listening: Oral Production and Interaction · speaking about oneself and the world in French
Unit 3
La légende
Characteristics and structure of a legend (characters, fantasy elements, explanation of a phenomenon) using an original story, and oral tradition.
Skill descriptor: Reading and Viewing: Comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
Unit 4
Le théâtre
Characters in a play (hero, supporting character, nemesis), dialogue, stage directions, and explicit versus implicit meaning, using an original scene.
Skill descriptor: Reading and Viewing: Comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
Unit 5
Le schéma narratif
The stages of a story: setting, inciting incident, rising action, falling action and resolution.
Skill descriptor: Reading and Viewing: Comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
Unit 6
Informer et argumenter
The structure of informational and argumentative texts, including point of view, argument and counter-argument.
Skill descriptor: Reading and Viewing: Comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
Unit 7
Point-virgule et guillemets
Using the semicolon and quotation marks to join ideas, report speech and cite sources.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 8
Qui, que, où
Building and recognizing relative clauses with qui, que and où.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 9
L'accord du participe passé
Making past participles agree in the passé composé with être (with the subject) and with avoir (with a direct object placed before the verb).
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 10
Les compléments
Telling apart direct objects, indirect objects and circumstantial complements (place, time, manner).
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 11
Futur simple et conditionnel
Forming and using the simple future and the present conditional, including polite requests.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
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