Core French, Grade 8

Unit 1: La production orale et l'ecoute

Oral production and listening at mid-band A2: understanding richer spoken French, showing comprehension including background description, producing spoken texts with passe compose and imparfait, and using speech acts to interact and express in authentic situations.

• Active listening strategies (mid-A2)
• Showing comprehension of a richer spoken text
• Inferring feelings and intentions

• Strategies for speaking (mid-A2)
• Speaking accurately and self-correcting
• Speech acts to interact and express (mid-A2)
• Presenting an experience to the group

Unit 2: La lecture et le visionnement

Reading and viewing at mid-band A2: strategies to build meaning in longer texts, showing comprehension of a variety of short texts, reading aloud with fluency and expression, and making cultural connections across la Francophonie and Mi'kmaq-French history.

• Reading strategies for longer texts (mid-A2)
• Skimming and scanning a text
• Showing comprehension of varied texts (mid-A2)
• Understanding how a text is organized

• Reading aloud with expression (mid-A2)
• The wider Francophonie and Mi'kmaq-French history

Unit 3: L'ecriture et la representation

Writing and representing at mid-band A2: strategies to guide longer writing, and writing a variety of texts of different genres (print and digital) with both past tenses and multi-reason opinions - building on Grade 7.

• Strategies to guide longer writing (mid-A2)
• Writing a story with scene and events
• Writing an opinion text with reasons