Core French 12

Unit 1: Communication

Communicating efficiently in French and interacting appropriately in a variety of authentic situations relative to your needs and interests - negotiating meaning, describing and comparing, presenting and defending a point of view, adapting to audience, interviewing, selecting, organizing, interpreting and analyzing information, telling stories, summarizing, using your own words, and discussing Acadian and other francophone cultures.

• Negotiating for understanding
• Varying language for the audience
• Participating in interviews

• Developing descriptions and comparisons
• Presenting a point of view logically
• Defending a point of view

• Choosing pertinent information
• Organizing information
• Interpreting and analyzing information

• Telling stories
• Giving summaries
• Using your own words

• Discussing Acadian and other francophone cultures

Unit 2: Linguistic Elements

Recognizing and using in context the linguistic elements that make communication work - interaction expressions, verb tenses suited to the situation, the language of refuting and contradicting, past narration, summarizing, and reacting critically and creatively.

• Using expressions that support interaction
• Using verb tenses suited to the context

• Refuting, rejecting, and contradicting to express an opinion
• Narrating events in the past
• Summarizing the main ideas of a text
• Reacting critically and creatively