804 CORE FRENCH

Grade 8 Core French Overview

The Grade 8 Core French curriculum guide is currently being overhauled and is in "Pilot" phase. Eastern Passage Education Centre is lucky enough to have been chosen to administer the pilot curriculum, which focuses on four main learning outcomes:

1. Learners will communicate orally in French in a variety of authentic situations and settings.

Les apprenants communiqueront oralement en français dans le cadre d’une variété de situations authentiques.

2. Learners will understand oral messages in a variety of authentic situations and settings.

Les apprenants comprendront à l’oral le message dans le cadre d’une variété de situations authentiques.

3. Learners will understand a range of French texts (including in multimedia formats) in a variety of authentic situations and settings.

Les apprenants comprendront une gamme de textes en français (y compris des formats multimédias) dans le cadre d’une variété de situations authentiques.

4. Learners will communicate in written form by writing in French in a variety of authentic situations (including text in electronic format).

Les apprenants communiqueront en écrivant des textes en français dans le cadre d’une variété de situations authentiques. (y compris sous format électronique).

Core French Daily Routines

In our Core French class, students can come to expect the following activities and routines:

• Students will be split into four "teams", which will compete against each other to see which team can score the most points by achieving the course outcomes and successfully completing activities.
• Each Monday of Week 1 schedule, we will spend the class going over French basics including the alphabet, numbers, weather, calendar, etc. These topics will be repeated using games and individual choice of activity and are meant to solidify the most common French words.
• Each day at the beginning of class, we will listen to a new French song/artist and explore some of the lyrics.
• Each Friday of Week 2 schedule, we will have a chance to watch a show or movie and go over the conversational language in the video, picking out common phrases and meanings that may be beneficial in the real world.

Core French Themes and Topics to be Explored

• Conversational French (i.e. important phrases and words)
• French basics (letters, numbers, etc.)
• Directions
• Manners
• Common questions and answers in everyday talk
• Acadian history and how the French language came to be in Nova Scotia (and Canada)