Core French, Grade 7

Unit 1: Oral Communication

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.

• Understanding messages and following multi-step directions
• Listening strategies and note-taking

• Introducing yourself and describing with detail
• Describing places, things, and activities
• Needs, inversion questions, and directions
• Fluency
• Accuracy

Unit 2: Reading

Reading and understanding narrative and expository French texts of several paragraphs, responding to and organizing text, and reading aloud with fluency and accuracy.

• Understanding multi-paragraph texts
• Responding to and organizing text
• Summarizing and comparing text to life
• Reading aloud with fluency and accuracy

Unit 3: Writing

Writing clear, coherent French paragraphs and texts on familiar topics with growing autonomy, and managing writing with attention to grammar rules, structures, and conventions.

• Purpose, structure, and introducing yourself in writing
• Describing places, things, and asking in writing
• Fluency: varied sentences with autonomy
• Accuracy: grammar, tenses, and conventions

Unit 4: Culture

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 communities around the world
• Connecting to world francophone cultures
• Forms of address and false cognates
• Reasons and benefits of learning French
• Bilingualism and French in daily life