Core French, Grade 9

Unit 1: Oral Communication

Listening to and understanding a variety of oral messages in standard French, and speaking to communicate elaborated messages - describing, narrating the past, expressing opinions, giving advice, predicting, and talking about the future - with fluency and accuracy.

• Understanding and retelling oral messages
• Listening strategies

• Describing people and things
• Talking about the past

• Expressing feelings and giving advice
• Predicting and justifying a viewpoint
• Talking about the future

• Fluency
• Accuracy

Unit 2: Reading

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

• Reading for purpose and main idea
• Identifying details and describing characters
• Responding to and connecting with text
• Questioning and evaluating text
• Reading aloud with fluency and accuracy

Unit 3: Writing

Developing and communicating ideas clearly in a variety of written texts - describing, narrating the past, expressing opinions, giving advice, predicting, and sharing information - and writing coherent, well-organized texts with accurate grammar, syntax, and synchronized tenses.

• Purpose, conventions, and describing
• Writing about the past

• Writing feelings, opinions, and advice
• Writing predictions and justifying viewpoints
• Writing about the future and sharing information

• Organizing varied, coherent texts
• Writing devices and synchronizing tenses
• Accuracy: grammar and syntax

Unit 4: Culture

Describing francophone cultures around the world and their cultural events, making personal connections, using appropriate register, and recognizing the reasons for French and bilingualism in society.

• Francophone cultures and cultural events
• Connecting to francophone teens
• Language register and comparisons
• Reasons for learning French
• Bilingualism and French beyond the classroom