Core French 11

Unit 1: Listening and Viewing With Intent

The receptive strand: interpreting a wide variety of authentic French texts, deploying comprehension strategies to bridge gaps, and analyzing the elements — format, context, audience, register, purpose — that shape a text.

• Interpreting a wide variety of authentic French texts

• Communication strategies (paraphrase, cognates, reference tools)

• Recognizing text types and formats (letter vs. email message)
• Analyzing a text's context, audience, and purpose
• Identifying register in a text (formal vs. informal)

Unit 2: The Communicative Context Determines Expression

The core expressive strand: choosing the right verb form and function for the time frame and situation, matching register and etiquette to context, choosing precise words, sustaining conversation, and narrating across time frames.

• The passé composé — completed past actions

• L'imparfait — ongoing and habitual past

• Passé composé vs. imparfait — choosing past aspect

• The présent — describing the current time frame

• Le futur proche — near-future plans (aller + infinitive)

• Le futur simple — the simple future tense

• Le conditionnel de politesse — polite requests and hypotheticals

• Asking open-ended questions to elicit a deeper response
• Sequencing events with time expressions and appropriate tenses
• Making predictions about the future
• Recounting personal experiences across time frames
• Expressing and justifying opinions (À mon avis…parce que…)
• Comparing and contrasting differing points of view

• Formal vs. informal speech and writing
• Language etiquette and forms of address
• Jargon, abbreviations, and txt spk

• Precise word choice and register-adjusted meaning

• Sustaining meaningful conversations on topics of interest

• Narrating stories orally and in writing across time frames

Unit 3: Language and Culture Are Interconnected

Idiomatic expressions from across la francophonie and the First Peoples–Francophone interactions that have shaped language and culture in Canada — the Michif language, Chinook Jargon, and First Peoples writers such as those from the Innu Nation.

• Fixed expressions with avoir, faire, être
• Argot (slang) expressions
• Figurative idioms from across la francophonie

• First Peoples–Francophone interactions: Michif, Chinook Jargon, Innu writers

Unit 4: Exploring Diverse Forms of Cultural Expression

The ethics of engaging with others' cultural expression — recognizing cultural appropriation, and practicing plagiarism-free attribution and citation when researching and creating.

• Ethics of cultural appropriation
• Plagiarism, attribution, and citing sources