Core French, Grade 10

Unit 1: La production orale et l'ecoute

Oral production and listening at senior entry: active-listening strategies to build meaning, showing comprehension of increasingly complex spoken texts, producing coherent structured speech across the tense range (present, past, future and a few conditional forms), and using speech acts to express, interact and justify in authentic presentation and conversation.

• Active listening to build meaning (senior entry)
• Understanding a more complex spoken text
• Inferring meaning and viewpoint in speech

• Speaking strategies for coherent structured speech
• Speaking fluently and repairing (guided)
• Speech acts to interact and justify
• Presenting on a familiar topic

Unit 2: La lecture et le visionnement

Reading and viewing at senior entry: reading strategies to construct meaning from varied short texts, and showing overall comprehension of texts written in everyday language - including cultural texts from Acadian PEI and the wider Francophonie (culture woven).

• Reading strategies for varied short texts
• Overall comprehension of everyday French
• Reading a cultural text and connecting

Unit 3: L'ecriture et la representation

Writing and representing at senior entry: strategies to orient a written text, and writing articulated, coherent multi-paragraph texts on familiar topics - guided, using complex sentences with transition words across the present, past and future plus a few conditional forms (no subjonctif yet).

• Strategies to orient your writing (guided)
• Writing an articulated informative text
• Writing a coherent opinion text (guided)