Grade 7 Core French
8 units matched to the Alberta Curriculum.
Organizing ideas
- Applications: using French to communicate in everyday situations, to explore and to have fun.
- Language competence: understanding and using the sounds, words, sentences and texts of French.
- Global citizenship: learning about Francophone communities in Alberta, Canada and the world, and about other cultures.
- Strategies: choosing ways to learn, use and remember French, and to manage your own learning.
Units
Unit 1
Directions
Asking for and giving directions, and describing where places are (à gauche, devant, derrière, à côté de).
Learning outcome: Applications; Language competence · speaking and interacting in French
Unit 2
Places in town
Vocabulary for places in a community and the contractions au, à la, à l'.
Learning outcome: Applications; Language competence · writing in French with correct conventions
Unit 3
Comparing
Making simple comparisons with plus… que, moins… que and aussi… que, and the special forms meilleur and mieux.
Learning outcome: Applications; Language competence · writing in French with correct conventions
Unit 4
Describing people
Describing the personality of family, friends and teachers, with adjectives that agree in gender and number.
Learning outcome: Applications; Language competence · speaking and interacting in French
Unit 5
Cognates and strategies
Using cognates and context to understand new French words, and watching out for false friends such as librairie.
Learning outcome: Applications; Language competence · reading and understanding French texts
Unit 6
Reading short stories
Understanding key information and events in simple French stories: characters, setting, problem and solution.
Learning outcome: Applications; Language competence · reading and understanding French texts
Unit 7
The Francophone world
Communities where French is spoken around the world, such as Belgium, Haiti, Morocco and Senegal, and in Canada.
Learning outcome: Global citizenship; Applications · French-speaking communities in Canada and around the world
Unit 8
Culture and honesty
The ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism: crediting sources and learning from cultures respectfully.
Learning outcome: Global citizenship; Applications · French-speaking communities in Canada and around the world
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