Grade 8 French Immersion
11 units matched to the BC Curriculum.
Big Ideas
- The choice of verbal and non-verbal language conveys the speaker's intentions.
- Becoming aware of the values conveyed in texts helps us to better understand their cultural content.
- Deepening our understanding of a text requires discovering the implicit and explicit information in it.
- The communicator, by organizing his or her ideas and relying on various sources, defends his or her point of view and influences the audience.
- Literature, when viewed in its context, helps to expand our perception of a society.
Units
Unit 1
Les registres de langue
Recognizing colloquial, standard and formal language, and choosing the right register for the audience.
Learning standard: Registers of language: colloquial, standard and formal language
Unit 2
Parler et se faire comprendre
Verbal communication (intonation, volume, speed, tone, pauses) and non-verbal communication (gestures and facial expressions).
Learning standard: Communication strategies: verbal (intonation, voice, volume, speed, tone, pauses) and non-verbal (gestures and mimicry)
Unit 3
La légende
Characteristics and structure of a legend (characters, fantasy elements, explanation of a phenomenon) using an original story, and oral tradition.
Learning standard: Literary elements: characteristics of the legend; structure of legends; elements of oral tradition
Unit 4
Le théâtre
Characters in a play (hero, supporting character, nemesis), dialogue, stage directions, and explicit versus implicit meaning, using an original scene.
Learning standard: Literary elements: characteristics of the play (setting, hero, supporting character, nemesis, dialogue, stage directions, explicit and implicit meaning)
Unit 5
Le schéma narratif
The stages of a story: setting, inciting incident, rising action, falling action and resolution.
Learning standard: Text organization: narrative structure (setting, inciting incident, rising action, falling action and resolution)
Unit 6
Informer et argumenter
The structure of informational and argumentative texts, including point of view, argument and counter-argument.
Learning standard: Text organization: structure of informational texts and argumentative texts
Unit 7
Point-virgule et guillemets
Using the semicolon and quotation marks to join ideas, report speech and cite sources.
Learning standard: Punctuation: semicolon and quotation marks
Unit 8
Qui, que, où
Building and recognizing relative clauses with qui, que and où.
Learning standard: Language elements: structure of relative subordinate clauses
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).
Learning standard: Language elements: subject/verb and direct object agreement with the verbs être and avoir in the passé composé
Unit 10
Les compléments
Telling apart direct objects, indirect objects and circumstantial complements (place, time, manner).
Learning standard: Language elements: grammatical functions of complements
Unit 11
Futur simple et conditionnel
Forming and using the simple future and the present conditional, including polite requests.
Learning standard: Language elements: verb moods and tenses: present conditional and simple future
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