Ontario · Grade 11
Core French, Grade 11, University Preparation
- FSF3U
Ontario’s Grade 11 French course, from Listening to Writing.
- Units
- 4
- Lessons
- 12
- Skills
- 39
- Provincial exam
- None
- Official curriculum
- dcp.edu.gov.on.ca
Unit by unit
Every skill in the course, numbered by unit.
Unit 1 · 8 skills
Listening
Listening to Understand
Using listening strategies
I can use a range of listening strategies to understand authentic and adapted spoken French.
Skill 1.1
Showing you understood
I can understand explicit and implicit messages in oral French about a variety of topics.
Skill 1.2
Listening to Interact
Interactive listening strategies
I can ask considered questions, build on others' ideas, and summarize both sides of an argument when moderating a discussion.
Skill 1.3
Responding in interactions
I can respond with understanding to what others say in a French interaction.
Skill 1.4
Naming what helped me listen
I can explain which strategies helped me listen effectively.
Skill 1.5
My strengths and next steps as a listener
I can assess my strengths as a listener and plan concrete steps to improve.
Skill 1.6
Culture and Conventions in Listening
Hearing about French-speaking communities worldwide
I can identify French-speaking communities worldwide from what I hear, and connect to their cultures.
Skill 1.7
Conventions you hear
I can notice how French speech changes with the situation and the community.
Skill 1.8
The official wording · 8 outcomes
- 1.1
- identify a range of listening comprehension strategies, and use them before, during, and after listening to oral French texts
- 1.2
- an understanding of explicit and implicit messages about a variety of topics in oral French texts, with support as appropriate
- 1.3
- identify and use interactive listening strategies to suit a variety of situations while participating in
- 1.4
- respond with understanding to what others say while participating in about a variety of topics, in formal and informal situations
- 1.5
- explain which strategies they found helpful
- 1.6
- identify their areas of greater and lesser
- 1.7
- using information from oral French texts, identify communities worldwide, find out about aspects of their cultures, and make connections to personal experiences and their own and other
- 1.8
- using information from oral French texts, identify and demonstrate an understanding of sociolinguistic conventions used in a variety of situations in diverse communities
Key ideas
At this level strategies must reach the implicit message, not just the stated facts - listening for tone, emphasis, and what a speaker implies but does not say.
Carefully considered questions encourage the speaker to keep talking and develop their idea further.
Inference strategies (reading intonation, noticing word choice, weighing context) are what separate understanding the explicit message from grasping the implicit one.
Affirming and building on the ideas of others moves a discussion forward instead of just restating your own view.
Oral texts carry explicit messages (stated outright) and implicit ones (implied) - you infer the skill set an employer wants from a job description, or the cause behind a series of events.
Watch out for
- Stopping at the literal, stated message and missing the implied meaning.
- Asking questions just to fill silence rather than to genuinely encourage the speaker to elaborate.
- Assuming tone and emphasis carry no information beyond the words themselves.
Every skill’s key ideas, worked examples and checks are in MapleMind.Practise this unit
Unit 2 · 10 skills
Speaking
Speaking to Communicate
Using speaking strategies
I can use speaking strategies to communicate clearly for a purpose and an audience.
Skill 2.1
Producing spoken messages
I can produce both prepared and spontaneous spoken French messages.
Skill 2.2
Speaking with fluency
I can speak French smoothly, with natural intonation and accurate pronunciation.
Skill 2.3
Applying language structures
I can use French parts of speech and word order correctly when I speak.
Skill 2.4
Speaking to Interact
Speaking-interaction strategies
I can behave appropriately when I speak with others in French.
Skill 2.5
Taking part in spoken exchanges
I can exchange information in prepared and spontaneous spoken interactions.
Skill 2.6
Naming what helped me speak
I can explain which strategies helped me speak effectively.
Skill 2.7
My strengths and next steps as a speaker
I can assess my strengths as a speaker and plan concrete steps to improve.
Skill 2.8
Culture and Conventions in Speaking
Speaking about French-speaking communities worldwide
I can speak about French-speaking communities worldwide and connect to their cultures.
Skill 2.9
Conventions when you speak
I can use the right French conventions - register, greetings, idioms - when I speak.
Skill 2.10
The official wording · 10 outcomes
- 2.1
- identify a range of speaking strategies and use them to express themselves clearly and in French for various purposes and to a variety of
- 2.2
- produce prepared and spontaneous messages in French to communicate information, ideas, and opinions about a variety of topics, with support as appropriate
- 2.3
- speak with a smooth pace, appropriate intonation, and accurate pronunciation in prepared
- 2.4
- their meaning clearly, using parts of speech and word order appropriately
- 2.5
- demonstrate an understanding of appropriate speaking behaviour when interacting with others in a variety of formal and informal situations
- 2.6
- exchange information, ideas, and opinions with others in prepared and spontaneous spoken interactions about a variety of topics, with support as appropriate
- 2.7
- explain which strategies they found helpful
- 2.8
- identify their areas of greater and lesser
- 2.9
- communicate information orally about communities worldwide, including aspects of their cultures and their contributions to la francophonie and the world, and make to personal
- 2.10
- identify sociolinguistic conventions associated with a variety of social situations in diverse communities and use them appropriately in spoken interactions
Unit 3 · 10 skills
Reading
Reading Comprehension
Using reading strategies
I can use a variety of reading strategies to understand authentic and adapted French texts.
Skill 3.1
Reading for meaning
I can understand the explicit and implicit messages in a French text.
Skill 3.2
Reading with fluency
I can read French texts smoothly enough to understand their overall sense.
Skill 3.3
Developing vocabulary
I can grow my French vocabulary using strategies while I read.
Skill 3.4
Purpose, Form, and Style
Purpose of text forms
I can identify the purpose of a variety of French text forms and explain how their characteristics carry meaning.
Skill 3.5
Features and style
I can spot text features and style and explain how they convey explicit and implicit messages.
Skill 3.6
Naming what helped me read
I can explain which strategies helped me read effectively.
Skill 3.7
My strengths and next steps as a reader
I can assess my strengths as a reader and plan concrete steps to improve.
Skill 3.8
Culture and Conventions in Reading
Reading about French-speaking communities worldwide
I can identify French-speaking communities worldwide from what I read, and connect to their cultures.
Skill 3.9
Conventions in French texts
I can spot sociolinguistic conventions - register, region, idiom - in French texts.
Skill 3.10
The official wording · 10 outcomes
- 3.1
- identify a variety of reading comprehension strategies and use them before, during, and after reading to understand French texts in various reading contexts
- 3.2
- demonstrate an understanding of explicit and implicit messages in a variety of student- and French texts about academic and personally relevant topics
- 3.3
- read a variety of French texts at a sufficient rate and with sufficient ease to demonstrate that they understand the overall sense of the text
- 3.4
- use a variety of strategies before, during, and after reading to determine or confirm the meaning of new, unfamiliar, or recently learned words and expressions
- 3.5
- identify the purpose(s) and characteristics of a variety of text forms, including fictional, informational, graphic, and media forms, and explain how the characteristics help communicate the meaning
- 3.6
- identify some features and stylistic elements of a variety of text forms, including fictional, informational, graphic, and media forms, and explain how they help to convey explicit and implicit messages
- 3.7
- explain which strategies they found helpful before, during, and after reading to understand
- 3.8
- identify their areas of greater and lesser
- 3.9
- using information from a variety of French texts, identify French- speaking communities worldwide, find out about aspects of their cultures, and make connections to personal experiences and their own and other
- 3.10
- identify, in a variety of French texts, examples of sociolinguistic conventions associated with a variety of social situations in diverse communities
Unit 4 · 11 skills
Writing
Purpose, Audience, and Form
Identifying purpose and audience
I can decide the purpose and audience for my French writing.
Skill 4.1
Writing in different forms
I can write a variety of French texts, applying each form's structure and style.
Skill 4.2
The subjonctif, conditionnel, and passive voice
I can apply hypothetical (conditionnel) sentences, the passive voice, and the subjonctif for emotion, doubt, and desire in my French writing.
Skill 4.3
Indirect discourse and nuance
I can apply indirect discourse for reporting, and expressing nuance and degree in a critique in my French writing.
Skill 4.4
The Writing Process
Pre-writing: gathering ideas
I can gather, develop, and organize ideas before I write in French.
Skill 4.5
Drafting and revising
I can draft a French text and revise it to improve the content.
Skill 4.6
Producing finished work
I can polish my French writing for clarity, readability, and presentation.
Skill 4.7
Naming what helped me write
I can explain which strategies helped me write effectively.
Skill 4.8
My strengths and next steps as a writer
I can assess my strengths as a writer and plan concrete steps to improve.
Skill 4.9
Culture and Conventions in Writing
Writing about French-speaking communities worldwide
I can write about French-speaking communities worldwide and connect to their cultures.
Skill 4.10
Conventions in my writing
I can use the right French conventions - register, salutations, idioms - when I write.
Skill 4.11
The official wording · 11 outcomes
- 4.1
- their purpose in writing and the audience for the French texts they plan to create
- 4.2
- write a variety of French texts to convey information, ideas, and opinions about academic and personally relevant topics, applying their knowledge of the structural and stylistic elements of each form
- 4.3
- highlight an industrial practice that has harmful consequences for the environment using hypothetical sentences; develop an opinion piece using the passive voice; describe their day in a blog or journal entry using expressions of emotion, doubt, desire, and permission with the subjonctif
- 4.4
- summarize the essential elements of a using indirect discourse; express nuances and degrees of appreciation or criticism in a letter to a community newspaper
- 4.5
- generate, develop, and organize ideas for writing using a variety of and resources
- 4.6
- plan and produce drafts and revise their work using a variety of and independent strategies
- 4.7
- make to enhance the clarity and readability of their written work, and use various elements of effective presentation to produce a polished product for publication
- 4.8
- explain which strategies they found helpful
- 4.9
- identify their areas of greater and lesser
- 4.10
- in their written work, communicate information about French- speaking communities worldwide, including aspects of their cultures and their contributions to la francophonie and the world, and make connections to personal
- 4.11
- identify sociolinguistic conventions associated with a variety of social situations in diverse
Key ideas
At this grade, clear writing draws on hypothetical (conditionnel) sentences, the passive voice, and the subjonctif for emotion, doubt, and desire.
Applying the convention correctly is what makes the meaning precise and the writing sound natural.
Watch out for
- Ordering words or agreements the English way.
- Using the structure incompletely or inconsistently across the text.
Every skill’s key ideas, worked examples and checks are in MapleMind.Practise this unit
Plan the term
Pick your term and the days you study. Each unit gets its share of the weeks and comes back a week later for a review. The last two weeks go over the whole course.
The official curriculum
This page follows Ontario’s own curriculum for Core French, Grade 11, University Preparation.
Strands
| Strand | Outcomes | Taught in |
|---|---|---|
| AListening | Outcomes 7 | Taught in Unit 1 |
| BSpeaking | Outcomes 9 | Taught in Unit 2 |
| CReading | Outcomes 9 | Taught in Unit 3 |
| DWriting | Outcomes 9 | Taught in Unit 4 |
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Questions about Core French, Grade 11, University Preparation
What is Core French, Grade 11, University Preparation?
Ontario’s Grade 11 French course: 4 units and 39 skills, from Listening to Writing.
What units are in Core French, Grade 11, University Preparation?
1. Listening, 2. Speaking, 3. Reading and 4. Writing.
Is there a provincial exam for Core French, Grade 11, University Preparation?
No. Ontario gives no provincial exam for Core French, Grade 11, University Preparation.
What comes after Core French, Grade 11, University Preparation?
Core French, Grade 12, University Preparation.
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