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The official Manitoba Core French, Grade 9 curriculum
Manitoba defines Core French, Grade 9 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 | 9 | Oral Communication |
| Strand C | 5 | Reading |
| Strand D | 8 | Writing |
| Strand E | 5 | Culture |
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How MapleMind teaches Core French, Grade 9 — every unit, lesson, and skill
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Unit 1Oral CommunicationOfficial strand · Strand B
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.
Listening for Meaning
- Understanding and retelling oral messagesFR.B.GRADES9-10.1 — Listen to standard French at normal speed and demonstrate comprehension - finding the main idea and key points, responding to a variety of message types, and retelling the gist.
- Listening strategiesFR.B.GRADES9-10.2 — Use appropriate strategies to understand a message - listening carefully to tone and intonation, asking for repetition and explanation, and predicting and verifying by context.
Message: Describing and Narrating
- Describing people and thingsFR.B.GRADES9-10.3 — Communicate elaborated ideas orally - describing the main features of a person or thing with details, opinions, and examples.
- Talking about the pastFR.B.GRADES9-10.4 — Communicate elaborated ideas orally - talking about the past by narrating a sequence of past events with the passe compose.
Message: Opinions, Advice, and Predictions
- Expressing feelings and giving adviceFR.B.GRADES9-10.5 — Communicate elaborated ideas orally - expressing a feeling or opinion and giving advice.
- Predicting and justifying a viewpointFR.B.GRADES9-10.6 — Communicate elaborated ideas orally - making predictions and justifying a viewpoint with reasons and examples.
- Talking about the futureFR.B.GRADES9-10.7 — Communicate elaborated ideas orally - talking about the future using the near future (aller + infinitive).
Fluency and Accuracy
- FluencyFR.B.GRADES9-10.8 — Use appropriate vocabulary and expressions to communicate with spontaneity, using appropriate rhythm, pace, and intonation.
- AccuracyFR.B.GRADES9-10.9 — Correctly use the vocabulary and syntax of French - affirmative, negative, and interrogative structures in compound and complex sentences, and a range of tenses as needed.
The official wording — 9 outcomes in this unit
- FR.B.GRADES9-10.1
respond to a variety of types of oral messages, such as phone messages, radio broadcasts, announcements and storytelling
- FR.B.GRADES9-10.2
use appropriate strategies to understand the message ex., ask for repetition and explanation
- FR.B.GRADES9-10.3
describing main features of a person or thing A person ex., Jonathan joue au hockey.
- FR.B.GRADES9-10.4
talking about the past
- FR.B.GRADES9-10.5
expressing a feeling or opinion (Grades 9 & 10)
- FR.B.GRADES9-10.6
justifying a viewpoint (Grades 9 & 10)
- FR.B.GRADES9-10.7
talking about the future
- FR.B.GRADES9-10.8
Students use appropriate rhythm, pace and intonation to communicate and to interact.
- FR.B.GRADES9-10.9
Students use the present, imperative, past, imperfect, future, and conditional tenses, among others, as needed, for communicative purposes related to the topic.
Unit 2ReadingOfficial strand · Strand C
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.
Message: Understanding Text
- Reading for purpose and main ideaFR.C.GRADES9-10.1 — Read and understand the global meaning and key points of narrative, expository, and poetic texts according to your purpose - establishing a purpose, anticipating meaning, and identifying the main idea.
- Identifying details and describing charactersFR.C.GRADES9-10.2 — Read and understand texts - identifying details related to the reading intention, describing the main characters, and creating a representation using media.
- Responding to and connecting with textFR.C.GRADES9-10.3 — Respond to texts orally or in writing - giving preferences and opinions, making personal connections, classifying ideas, explaining the author's message, and making inferences.
- Questioning and evaluating textFR.C.GRADES9-10.4 — Respond to texts - asking questions and evaluating the effectiveness of the text based on its communicative intent.
- Reading aloud with fluency and accuracyFR.C.GRADES9-10.5 — Read a variety of texts aloud - pausing at punctuation, using intonation for the sentence type, reading with expression, and pronouncing words and liaisons correctly.
The official wording — 5 outcomes in this unit
- FR.C.GRADES9-10.1
establish the purpose for reading
- FR.C.GRADES9-10.2
identify details related to the reading intention
- FR.C.GRADES9-10.3
making personal connections
- FR.C.GRADES9-10.4
evaluating the effectiveness of the text based on its communicative intent
- FR.C.GRADES9-10.5
read with expression to convey the message
Unit 3WritingOfficial strand · Strand D
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.
Message: Purpose and Describing
- Purpose, conventions, and describingFR.D.GRADES9-10.1 — Develop and communicate ideas clearly using models - explaining the communicative purpose, respecting the format and conventions of the text type, and describing the main features of a person or thing.
- Writing about the pastFR.D.GRADES9-10.2 — Develop and communicate ideas clearly using models - writing about the past by describing a real or imaginary past event with the passe compose.
Message: Opinions, Advice, and Predictions
- Writing feelings, opinions, and adviceFR.D.GRADES9-10.3 — Develop and communicate ideas clearly - writing to express a feeling or opinion and to give advice.
- Writing predictions and justifying viewpointsFR.D.GRADES9-10.4 — Develop and communicate ideas clearly - writing predictions and justifying a viewpoint with a reason and an example.
- Writing about the future and sharing informationFR.D.GRADES9-10.5 — Develop and communicate ideas clearly - writing about the future (an email suggesting an activity), sharing information, and asking for information.
Fluency and Accuracy
- Organizing varied, coherent textsFR.D.GRADES9-10.6 — Write a variety of coherent, organized texts - planning and editing for flow, using varied sentence types, and choosing specific vocabulary.
- Writing devices and synchronizing tensesFR.D.GRADES9-10.7 — Write coherent texts - using writing devices to repeat ideas, mark relationships, and organize text, and synchronizing verb tenses and modes.
- Accuracy: grammar and syntaxFR.D.GRADES9-10.8 — Manage your writing with the rules and syntax of French - agreement, past-participle agreement with etre, correct conjugations, and correct structures.
The official wording — 8 outcomes in this unit
- FR.D.GRADES9-10.1
describing main features of a person or thing ex., describe a famous person
- FR.D.GRADES9-10.2
writing about the past ex., describe an event or a personal experience from the past
- FR.D.GRADES9-10.3
expressing a feeling or opinion
- FR.D.GRADES9-10.4
justifying a viewpoint
- FR.D.GRADES9-10.5
talking about the future ex., write an e-mail to suggest an activity or a change of activity
- FR.D.GRADES9-10.6
use a variety of sentence types that are well organized
- FR.D.GRADES9-10.7
synchronise verb tenses and modes
- FR.D.GRADES9-10.8
agreement of the past participle of verbs conjugated with etre
Unit 4CultureOfficial strand · Strand E
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 Events
- Francophone cultures and cultural eventsFR.E.GRADES9-10.1 — Describe elements of francophone cultures - your own background, francophone communities worldwide, opinions on cultural events, and well-known francophones' contributions.
- Connecting to francophone teensFR.E.GRADES9-10.2 — Make links to your personal life - comparing your culture to francophone cultures and your activities with those of francophone teens.
- Language register and comparisonsFR.E.GRADES9-10.3 — Use appropriate vocabulary - the appropriate language register, exclamations, and commonalities and differences between French and English.
- Reasons for learning FrenchFR.E.GRADES9-10.4 — Identify the reasons and advantages of learning French - explaining reasons connected to real situations.
- Bilingualism and French beyond the classroomFR.E.GRADES9-10.5 — Identify yourself as a French language learner - identifying bilingualism in society, using French beyond the classroom, and using idiomatic expressions.
The official wording — 5 outcomes in this unit
- FR.E.GRADES9-10.1
are aware of and express opinions about francophone cultural events:
- FR.E.GRADES9-10.2
compare own activities with those of francophone teens.
- FR.E.GRADES9-10.3
use the appropriate language register
- FR.E.GRADES9-10.4
explain reasons for learning French.
- FR.E.GRADES9-10.5
recognize and use French beyond the classroom.
Printable workbook · A keepsake of the year
A Core French, Grade 9 workbook worth keeping
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.
By June it's full of their own handwriting: units worked through, confidence grown, a mid-year check-in, notes from parent-teacher night, and a certificate at the end. Less a worksheet, more a record of the year worth keeping on the shelf.
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Where can I see the official Manitoba curriculum for Core French, Grade 9?
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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