Grade 4 French Immersion
9 units matched to the New Brunswick Curriculum. Kids see this subject as “Français”.
Learning focus
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Comprehension. Understand different oral texts on a variety of familiar/known topics, topics studied and personal interests.
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Production and Interaction. Communicate about familiar/known topics, topics studied and personal interests using specific language.
- Reading and Viewing: Phonics. Use knowledge of written sounds (graphemes) to read words in text accurately.
- Reading and Viewing: Vocabulary. Use knowledge of the vocabulary acquired to facilitate your reading.
- Reading and Viewing: Fluency and Accuracy. Read a variety of increasingly complex texts accurately and fluently.
- Reading and Viewing: Comprehension. Read while understanding a variety of increasingly complex texts.
- Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process. Write different types of texts about familiar/familiar topics, topics studied and personal interests following the writing process.
- Writing and Representing: Writing Traits. Enrich your writing with different types of texts by applying writing traits.
Units
Unit 1
Tu ou vous?
Choosing between “tu” and “vous” depending on who is being spoken to, an important courtesy in French.
Skill descriptor: Speaking and Listening: Oral Production and Interaction · speaking about oneself and the world in French
Unit 2
Poser des questions
Question words (qui, où, quand, pourquoi, comment, combien) and questions formed by inverting the subject and verb.
Skill descriptor: Speaking and Listening: Oral Production and Interaction · speaking about oneself and the world in French
Unit 3
Synonymes et contraires
Building vocabulary with synonyms (similar meaning) and antonyms (opposite meaning).
Skill descriptor: Reading and Viewing: Comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
Unit 4
Les adverbes en -ment
Forming adverbs from the feminine form of an adjective plus -ment.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 5
Comparer
Comparing with plus… que, moins… que and aussi… que, with adjectives and adverbs.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 6
Le passé composé
The passé composé of first-group (-er) verbs, formed with avoir and the past participle.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 7
L'imparfait
The imparfait, the tense used to describe and to set the scene in stories and tales.
Skill descriptor: Writing and Representing: Written Production and the Writing Process · writing in French with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Unit 8
Comprendre un texte
Reading a short text, finding the main idea and making inferences from clues.
Skill descriptor: Reading and Viewing: Comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
Unit 9
La structure du récit
The five parts of a narrative: initial situation, inciting incident, rising action, resolution and final situation.
Skill descriptor: Reading and Viewing: Comprehension · reading and understanding a range of French texts
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