Grade 5 French Immersion
7 units matched to the Ontario Curriculum.
Overall expectations
- In immersion, French is the language we learn in, so listening and speaking grow every day.
- Reading French texts of many kinds builds comprehension and the habit of reading for meaning.
- Writing in French for a purpose and an audience uses the conventions of the language.
- Understanding how French works helps us choose the right words, tenses and sentence structures.
- Learning in French connects us with Francophone communities in Canada and around the world.
Units
Unit 1
Qui, que, où, dont
Using the simple relative pronouns qui, que, où and dont to join two ideas in one sentence.
Expectation: D1, D2 · writing for a purpose and audience, using correct French conventions
Unit 2
Ne… plus, jamais, rien
Negative forms ne… plus, ne… jamais and ne… rien, and where each word goes in the sentence.
Expectation: D1, D2 · writing for a purpose and audience, using correct French conventions
Unit 3
Les adverbes
Adverbs of time, place, manner and quantity, and what each one tells us about the action.
Expectation: D1, D2 · writing for a purpose and audience, using correct French conventions
Unit 4
La ponctuation
Quotation marks, the colon and parentheses used correctly in French.
Expectation: D1, D2 · writing for a purpose and audience, using correct French conventions
Unit 5
La bande dessinée
The features of a comic book: panels, speech and thought bubbles, sound words and how pictures and text work together.
Expectation: C1, C2 · reading comprehension, and the purpose, form and style of French texts
Unit 6
La biographie
Features of a biography: point of view, dates, quotations, sources and chronological order.
Expectation: C1, C2 · reading comprehension, and the purpose, form and style of French texts
Unit 7
Fait ou opinion?
Telling an objective statement (a fact) from a subjective one (an opinion), an early critical-thinking skill.
Expectation: C1, C2 · reading comprehension, and the purpose, form and style of French texts
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