Core French, Grade 4

Unit 1: Oral Communication

Listening to understand short, simple French messages, and speaking to communicate ideas in complete simple sentences with the fluency and accuracy modeled by the teacher.

• Listening to understand simple messages

• Introducing yourself and describing
• Needs, questions, and directions

• Speaking with rhythm and spontaneity

• Correct vocabulary, syntax, and pronunciation

Unit 2: Reading

Reading short, simple illustrated French texts, responding to them, and reading aloud with fluency and accuracy - paying attention to punctuation, intonation, and sound-letter relationships.

• Responding to what you read

• Reading aloud with ease and precision

Unit 3: Writing

Planning and writing clear, coherent short French texts on familiar topics - simple complete sentences and simple paragraphs modeled by the teacher - and managing writing with attention to the rules, syntax, and conventions of French.

• Writing clearly with fluency

• Writing accurately: rules and conventions

Unit 4: Culture

Getting to know francophone cultures and the francophonie manitobaine - the French-speaking communities of Manitoba, Franco-Manitoban culture and celebrities, the advantages of learning French, and seeing French in daily life - and applying that knowledge to interactions with others.

• French-speaking communities of Manitoba
• Connecting to my own culture

• French and English: forms of address and differences
• Advantages of learning French
• French in my daily life