Core French, Grade 5

Unit 1: Oral Communication

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

• Listening to understand messages

• Introducing yourself and describing preferences
• Describing things, surroundings, and needs
• Asking for information and giving directions
• Fluency
• Accuracy

Unit 2: Reading

Reading and understanding the global meaning of narrative and expository French texts, responding to texts, and reading aloud with fluency and accuracy.

• Understanding the global meaning of a text
• Responding to what you read
• Reading aloud with ease and precision

Unit 3: Writing

Writing clear, coherent French texts in complete sentences and paragraphs on familiar topics as modeled by the teacher, and managing writing with attention to grammar rules, structures, and conventions.

• Purpose, structure, and introducing yourself
• Describing in a paragraph
• Fluency: varying sentences
• Accuracy: grammar and conventions

Unit 4: Culture

Getting to know francophone and Metis cultures across Canada and the francophonie manitobaine, making personal connections, using appropriate vocabulary and forms of address, and identifying the advantages of French and its place in daily life.

• Francophone and Metis communities in Canada
• Connecting to my own culture

• Forms of address and French-English differences
• Advantages of learning French
• French in my daily life