Core French 6
British Columbia · Grade 6 · French — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Listening and Viewing with Intent
Big Idea: listening and viewing with intent helps us understand French. Before we can speak French with confidence, we have to train our ears — noticing the individual sounds of French consonants, vowels, diphthongs, and nasal vowels, and telling apart sounds that seem alike.
- Consonant, vowel, diphthong, and nasal sounds
- Hearing the difference between similar sounds
Unit 2: Using Strategies to Understand and Acquire Language
Big Idea: using various strategies helps us understand and acquire language. One of the biggest strategies for reading French is recognizing letter patterns — groupings of letters that make the same sound, rhyming words, and patterns with consistent pronunciations — so print stops being a mystery.
- French letter patterns and how they sound
Unit 3: Describing Others and Their Interests
Big Idea: with simple French, we can describe others and their interests. Describing the important people in our lives — family, pets, friends, community members — and the things in our world, then sharing our hobbies, our likes and dislikes with reasons, and how we feel.
- Describing people (Il/Elle/On est, a, aime)
- Describing objects and things around me
- Talking about hobbies and interests
- Giving reasons for likes and dislikes (…parce que…)
- Saying how I feel and where it hurts
Unit 4: Reciprocal Communication with High-Frequency Structures
Big Idea: reciprocal communication in French is possible using high-frequency vocabulary and sentence structures. Asking and answering common questions, and reading or giving basic information about an event, so a conversation can go back and forth.
- Asking and answering common questions
- Reading and giving basic event information
Unit 5: Acquiring Language Through Stories
Big Idea: stories help us to acquire language and understand the world around us. Stories — indigenous oral histories, personal stories, skits, songs — are shared to seek and impart knowledge, entertain, and strengthen identity, which is exactly why using someone else's story, song, or image without permission or context matters: it can misrepresent the real experience of the people it comes from.
- Respecting others' work and culture (appropriation and plagiarism)
Unit 6: Francophone Communities and Cultural Awareness
Big Idea: learning about Francophone communities helps us develop cultural awareness. French is spoken by communities all across Canada, each with its own cultural aspects and festivals worth exploring — including First Peoples communities where French is spoken.
- Cultural aspects of communities
- Where French is spoken across Canada
- A Francophone festival or celebration
- First Peoples communities and the French language
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