French as a Second Language 7 (Nine-Year Program)

Unit 1: La boîte à outils — Grade 7 Foundations

The foundations everything else stands on: the four essential verbs, regular –er verbs, articles and agreement, possession, questions and negation, and the little words of place.

• Avoir, être, faire, aller in the present
• Regular –er verbs in the present

• Articles and agreement
• Possessive adjectives

• Saying no: ne … pas
• Asking questions

• Expressions with avoir and faire
• Prepositions of place

Unit 2: L'école

The first field of experience: supplies, subjects, the school plan and the people who run it — the French of your own school day.

• Understanding classroom French
• Reading school documents

• Talking about school subjects
• Labelling a school floor plan

Unit 3: Les gens autour de moi

The second field of experience: classmates, friends and family — understanding who people are and describing them in French.

• Understanding talk about people
• Describing people

Unit 4: La météo

The third field of experience: weather conditions, climate, Canada's weather and the folklore around it — from the radio forecast to describing the seasons.

• Understanding a weather report
• Describing the weather

Unit 5: Fêtes et célébrations

The fourth field of experience: the origins and traditions of four holidays through the year — reading invitations and celebration texts, and writing about traditions.

• Reading invitations and celebration texts
• Writing about holiday traditions

Unit 6: Le français au Canada et dans le monde

Where French lives — the geography of the Francophone world, French education in Alberta and beyond, and the culture hiding in weather proverbs and school days.

• Where French is spoken
• Comparing ways of life