Grade 9 French Immersion
9 units matched to the New Brunswick Curriculum.
Learning focus
- Intercultural competencies: Intercultural awareness. Develop an awareness of and reflect on the role of languages and cultures in shaping identity.
- Intercultural competencies: Intercultural knowledge. Understand the ways of knowing, doing and being of French-speaking cultures and other cultures
- Intercultural competencies: Intercultural skills. Apply intercultural skills and positive attitudes towards cultures and languages.
- Listening and speaking: Listening comprehension. Understand a variety of complex oral texts on different topics using comprehension strategies
- Listening and speaking: Oral communication. Produce oral texts on a variety of topics, considering different audiences and communication needs
- Reading: Reading comprehension. Understand a variety of complex texts on different topics using comprehension strategies
- Writing: Written communication. Write texts about a variety of topics, considering different audiences and communication needs.
Units
Unit 1
Registres et exposés oraux
Registers of language (colloquial, standard, formal) and speaking to an audience: intention, organization, clarification and explanation.
Skill descriptor: Listening and speaking: Oral communication · speaking about oneself and the world in French
Unit 2
La fable
Characteristics of the fable (moral, literal and figurative meaning, manners and customs), using an original fable.
Skill descriptor: Reading: Reading comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
Unit 3
Le roman et ses personnages
Characteristics of the novel (modes of narration, function of characters, point of view, setting) and character portrayal (physical and psychological).
Skill descriptor: Reading: Reading comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
Unit 4
Les figures de style
Stylistic elements: personification, metaphor, alliteration, comparison and hyperbole.
Skill descriptor: Reading: Reading comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
Unit 5
La séquence descriptive
Descriptive sequences: introduction, central subject with aspects and sub-aspects, conclusion; enriching a text with varied vocabulary and types of sentences.
Skill descriptor: Writing: Written communication · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 6
Les temps du passé
Choosing among the passé composé, imparfait and plus-que-parfait, and making past participles agree.
Skill descriptor: Writing: Written communication · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 7
Les pronoms compléments
Direct pronouns (me, te, se, le, la, les) and indirect pronouns (me, te, nous, vous, lui, leur, y, en).
Skill descriptor: Writing: Written communication · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 8
Les phrases hypothétiques
Hypothetical sentences with si: matching the tense after si with the tense of the result.
Skill descriptor: Writing: Written communication · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 9
Passé simple et plus-que-parfait
Using the pluperfect (plus-que-parfait) tense and recognizing the simple past (passé simple) in stories.
Skill descriptor: Writing: Written communication · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
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