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The official Manitoba Core French, Grade 7 curriculum
Manitoba defines Core French, Grade 7 by strands and outcomes. MapleMind teaches the same curriculum reorganized for one-skill-at-a-time tutoring — the table shows exactly where every official strand lands, and the ministry's own wording is quoted under each unit below.
Official source Manitoba's official curriculumRead it on the government site — edu.gov.mb.ca ↗| Official strand | Outcomes | Where MapleMind teaches it |
|---|---|---|
| Strand B | 7 | Oral Communication |
| Strand C | 4 | Reading |
| Strand D | 4 | Writing |
| Strand E | 5 | Culture |
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How MapleMind teaches Core French, Grade 7 — every unit, lesson, and skill
Every skill below runs as a short session: a plain-words lesson, a worked example, solving it together, then a five-question skill check that earns up to three stars. Guided Mode keeps it teaching instead of answer-handing — turning it off needs a parent's password.
Unit 1Oral CommunicationOfficial strand · Strand B
Listening to understand messages with several steps and using strategies, and speaking to communicate ideas elaborated with details, opinions, and examples, with fluency and accuracy.
Listening for Meaning
- Understanding messages and following multi-step directionsFR.B.GRADES7-8.1 — Listen with visual support and show comprehension - naming key ideas, main idea and supporting details, responding to short messages, and following multi-step directions.
- Listening strategies and note-takingFR.B.GRADES7-8.2 — Use various strategies to understand a spoken message - attentive listening to tone and intonation, contextual and visual clues, asking questions, and taking notes on an organizer chart.
Message: Speaking to Communicate
- Introducing yourself and describing with detailFR.B.GRADES7-8.3 — Communicate ideas in complete sentences elaborated with details, opinions, and examples as modeled - introducing yourself and describing your preferences and a person.
- Describing places, things, and activitiesFR.B.GRADES7-8.4 — Communicate ideas elaborated as modeled - describing a place and a thing, and talking about daily activities and immediate surroundings.
- Needs, inversion questions, and directionsFR.B.GRADES7-8.5 — Communicate ideas elaborated as modeled - communicating a need, asking for information using inversion, and giving multi-step directions.
- FluencyFR.B.GRADES7-8.6 — Use appropriate vocabulary and expressions to communicate with spontaneity, using appropriate rhythm, pace, and intonation.
- AccuracyFR.B.GRADES7-8.7 — Correctly use the vocabulary and syntax of French as modeled - simple and compound structures in three forms, and the present, past, future, and imperative tenses.
The official wording — 7 outcomes in this unit
- FR.B.GRADES7-8.1
follow simple directions that have several steps and demonstrate understanding ex., follow a series of commands to find a certain location on a map
- FR.B.GRADES7-8.2
use various strategies to understand the communicated message ex., take notes using a organizer chart
- FR.B.GRADES7-8.3
describing preferences, person, place or thing Preferences ex., J'aime faire de la voile au lac Winnipeg.
- FR.B.GRADES7-8.4
talking about daily activities, immediate surroundings ex., Daily activities Apres l'ecole, je vais aller chez mon ami.
- FR.B.GRADES7-8.5
asking for information (ask questions using inversion) ex., Ou est la cafeteria? Pouvons-nous manger ensemble?
- FR.B.GRADES7-8.6
Students use appropriate rhythm, pace, and intonation to communicate and to interact as modeled by the teacher.
- FR.B.GRADES7-8.7
Students use the present, past, future and imperative tenses (related to themes).
Unit 2ReadingOfficial strand · Strand C
Reading and understanding narrative and expository French texts of several paragraphs, responding to and organizing text, and reading aloud with fluency and accuracy.
Message: Understanding Text
- Understanding multi-paragraph textsFR.C.GRADES7-8.1 — Read and understand the global meaning of narrative and expository texts - anticipating meaning, reading several-paragraph texts, and identifying the main idea, details, character, and answers to questions.
- Responding to and organizing textFR.C.GRADES7-8.2 — Respond to texts orally or in writing - giving preferences and opinions, describing the beginning, middle, and end, and classifying and organizing details.
- Summarizing and comparing text to lifeFR.C.GRADES7-8.3 — Respond to texts - summarizing events chronologically, identifying the message or theme, and comparing events and characters with your own life.
- Reading aloud with fluency and accuracyFR.C.GRADES7-8.4 — Read a grade-appropriate text of several paragraphs aloud - pausing at punctuation, using intonation for the sentence type, and pronouncing sounds and liaisons correctly.
The official wording — 4 outcomes in this unit
- FR.C.GRADES7-8.1
read familiar texts characterized by several short paragraphs
- FR.C.GRADES7-8.2
classify and organize details ex., Dans le texte, il y a 5 points importants :
- FR.C.GRADES7-8.3
summarize events chronologically ex., Premierement... Deuxiement... Troisiement... Enfin
- FR.C.GRADES7-8.4
read aloud a text of several paragraphs
Unit 3WritingOfficial strand · Strand D
Writing clear, coherent French paragraphs and texts on familiar topics with growing autonomy, and managing writing with attention to grammar rules, structures, and conventions.
Message: Writing to Communicate
- Purpose, structure, and introducing yourself in writingFR.D.GRADES7-8.1 — Communicate ideas clearly in paragraphs following modeled examples - establishing the communicative purpose, respecting text structure, and introducing yourself with details.
- Describing places, things, and asking in writingFR.D.GRADES7-8.2 — Communicate ideas in paragraphs as modeled - describing a place and a thing, daily activities and surroundings, and asking for information using inversion in writing.
- Fluency: varied sentences with autonomyFR.D.GRADES7-8.3 — Write a variety of coherent texts on familiar topics with some autonomy - varying sentence type and length and using vocabulary and transition words to develop ideas.
- Accuracy: grammar, tenses, and conventionsFR.D.GRADES7-8.4 — Manage your writing with the rules and syntax of French - noun-adjective agreement, verb conjugations across four tenses, correct structures, and conventions.
The official wording — 4 outcomes in this unit
- FR.D.GRADES7-8.1
establish the communicative purpose ex., identify the target audience
- FR.D.GRADES7-8.2
asking for information (ask questions using inversion) ex., write a text A quelle heure est le match de baseball? Vas-tu au match?
- FR.D.GRADES7-8.3
write a range of compound sentences in the affirmative, negative and interrogative forms (in paragraphs).
- FR.D.GRADES7-8.4
correctly use verb conjugations (the present, past, future and imperative tenses)
Unit 4CultureOfficial strand · Strand E
Getting to know francophone cultures around the world, making personal connections, using appropriate vocabulary and forms of address, and recognizing the reasons for French and bilingualism in society.
Francophone Cultures of the World
- Francophone communities around the worldFR.E.GRADES7-8.1 — Identify elements of francophone cultures - your own background, francophone communities around the world and their location, world francophone culture with an opinion, and well-known francophones.
- Connecting to world francophone culturesFR.E.GRADES7-8.2 — Make links to your personal life - comparing elements of your own culture to francophone cultures of the world, and comparing your activities to those of francophone children worldwide.
- Forms of address and false cognatesFR.E.GRADES7-8.3 — Use appropriate vocabulary for the purpose and context - familiar and formal forms of address, and commonalities and differences between French and English including false cognates.
- Reasons and benefits of learning FrenchFR.E.GRADES7-8.4 — Identify the reasons and advantages of learning French - explaining reasons and benefits such as discovering French culture and visiting a francophone community.
- Bilingualism and French in daily lifeFR.E.GRADES7-8.5 — Identify yourself as a French language learner - identifying bilingualism in society, French in daily life, and using idiomatic expressions.
The official wording — 5 outcomes in this unit
- FR.E.GRADES7-8.1
identify francophone communities around the world and place them on a map.
- FR.E.GRADES7-8.2
compare elements of own culture to elements of francophone cultures of the world.
- FR.E.GRADES7-8.3
Identify commonalities/linguistic and cultural differences between the French and English languages. ex., false cognates (faux amis)
- FR.E.GRADES7-8.4
explain reasons and benefits for learning French.
- FR.E.GRADES7-8.5
identify examples of bilingualism in our society.
Printable workbook · A keepsake of the year
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Built from the same official curriculum as this page. Before and after each skill above, your student colours in how sure they feel — so the two of you can see, on one page, what's clicking and what needs another look. It's a quiet way to follow how the year is really going.
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The official source is linked on this page — Manitoba's official curriculum. The outline here follows it: every MapleMind skill carries its official outcome code, and the ministry's own wording is quoted under each unit.
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