Core French 3200

Unit 1: Oral Production

The Oral Production strand: Grade 12 learners identify and describe objects, people, places, events, and experiences across personal and global contexts; explain and justify desires, feelings, preferences, opinions, and points of view; express agreement and disagreement; speak with fluency and accuracy in increasingly diverse contexts; recount experiences and events; and demonstrate use of oral presentation strategies.

• Identifying across personal and global contexts
• Describing across personal and global contexts
• Explaining and justifying opinions
• Expressing agreement and disagreement
• Fluency in increasingly diverse contexts
• Recounting experiences and events
• Oral presentation strategies

Unit 2: Oral Interaction (Speaking and Listening)

The Oral Interaction strand: Grade 12 learners ask and respond to questions with increasing spontaneity, exchange ideas, feelings, opinions, and information with supporting detail, compare experiences, preferences, and opinions, ask for and give multi-step directions, speak with fluency and accuracy, and identify main ideas and specific details in oral texts.

• Asking with increasing spontaneity
• Responding with increasing spontaneity
• Exchanging ideas with supporting detail
• Exchanging information about experiences
• Comparing objects, people, places, and events
• Comparing preferences and opinions
• Directions with many steps
• Speaking with fluency and accuracy

• Main idea in oral texts
• Specific details in oral texts

Unit 3: Reading and Viewing

The Reading and Viewing strand: Grade 12 learners extract main ideas and specific details from a variety of texts, follow multi-step directions, use reading strategies, read with accuracy and precision, organize information from texts, respond to and justify opinions of texts, use gathered information for a task, and read aloud with fluency and accuracy.

• Extracting main ideas from texts
• Extracting specific details from texts
• Following multi-step directions
• Using reading strategies
• Reading with accuracy and precision
• Organizing information from texts

• Responding to texts
• Expressing and justifying an opinion of a text
• Using gathered information for a task
• Reading aloud with fluency and accuracy

Unit 4: Writing and Representing

The Writing and Representing strand: Grade 12 learners create personal and informational texts on diverse topics, complete texts such as applications and surveys, use the writing process, use strategies to complete and publish texts, write with precision and accuracy, and respond to a variety of texts on diverse topics such as blogs, e-mails, opinions, and editorials.

• Creating personal texts on diverse topics
• Creating informational texts on diverse topics
• Completing applications, surveys, and inventories

• Using the writing process
• Completing and publishing texts
• Writing with precision and accuracy
• Responding to blogs, e-mails, and editorials

Unit 5: Francophone Culture

The Francophone Culture strand: Grade 12 learners compare and contrast their own culture with various francophone cultures, examine the contributions of well-known francophones, identify the influence of other cultures locally through internationally, and recognize the importance of bilingualism and their role as a bilingual individual.

• Comparing and contrasting cultures
• Examining francophone contributions
• Identifying the influence of other cultures
• Recognizing the importance of bilingualism