Core French 9

Unit 1: Communication

Communicating effectively in French and interacting appropriately in a range of authentic situations relative to your needs and interests - following directions, exchanging information, telling about events, discussing tastes and justifying choices, selecting main ideas, producing and revising a variety of texts, and discussing Acadian and other francophone cultures.

• Following increasingly complex directions
• Asking for and giving information

• Telling about an event
• Giving a report
• Giving directions

• Discussing your own tastes
• Justifying your choices

• Choosing pertinent information
• Identifying the main ideas of a text
• Producing a variety of texts
• Revising and correcting your text

• Discussing Acadian and other francophone cultures

Unit 2: Linguistic Elements

Recognizing and using in context the linguistic elements that make communication work - connector words, negation, interrogatives, and verb tenses suited to the situation, plus the adjectives, adverbs, and comparatives needed to describe and compare.

• Connectors, negation, interrogatives, and verb tenses

• Adjectives, adverbs, comparatives, and superlatives