Grade 7 French Immersion: how to help at home
What your child learns in Grade 7 french immersion in the New Brunswick Curriculum, and simple things to try at home.
The Big Ideas this year
- 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.
Easy ways to practise french immersion at home
- Read French novels, comics or articles on topics your child enjoys.
- Ask your child to explain a grammar rule to you, with an example.
- Have your child write a short French note or message to a relative or pen pal.
- Use a French dictionary or conjugation tool together when revising a draft.
What each unit covers
Le superlatif
The relative superlative (le plus, la moins…) and the absolute superlative (très, extrêmement).
Choisir le bon temps
Choosing verb tenses that fit together logically in a text, using clues such as hier, chaque été and demain.
Figures de style
Recognizing comparisons, metaphors, personification and hyperbole, and how they create an effect.
La poésie
Features of poetry: verses, stanzas, rhyme, theme and images, using two original poems.
Défendre son opinion
Structure of an argumentative paragraph: opinion, arguments, examples and conclusion, linked with discourse markers.
Lire entre les lignes
Finding implicit information from clues in a text, and identifying the theme of a story.
Portrait de personnage
Describing a character with physical traits and psychological traits, and inferring personality from actions.
What the report card levels look like at home
- Working below
- Just getting started with this idea. Short, regular practice with lots of support helps most.
- Approaching
- Understands parts of it and is building confidence. Keep practising the tricky parts.
- Meeting
- Has it! Mixed review now and then keeps it strong.
- Excelling
- Applies it confidently, even in new or harder situations. Try challenge mode and real-life problems.
Your child’s teacher decides the level on the report card. Read the New Brunswick report card guide.
Common questions
Read French novels, comics or articles on topics your child enjoys. Ask your child to explain a grammar rule to you, with an example. Keep sessions short, about 10 to 15 minutes, and stop on a success.
The New Brunswick Curriculum Grade 7 french immersion units include le superlatif, choisir le bon temps, figures de style, la poésie, défendre son opinion, lire entre les lignes.
Free printable Grade 7 french immersion practice sheet
Questions from every unit, with an answer key.