Core French, Grade 9

Unit 1: La production orale et l'ecoute

Oral production and listening at the top of the intermediate band: understanding spoken French on broader topics, showing developed comprehension, producing spoken texts across the tense range including the futur simple, and using speech acts to interact, express and defend views in authentic situations.

• Active listening strategies (toward A2+)
• Taking notes while listening
• Showing developed comprehension of a spoken text
• Recognizing a speaker's viewpoint and tone

• Strategies for speaking (toward A2+)
• Speaking accurately and autonomously
• Speech acts to interact and defend a view
• Presenting on a general-interest topic

Unit 2: La lecture et le visionnement

Reading and viewing at the top of the intermediate band: autonomous strategies for varied texts, developed comprehension with analysis, expressive reading aloud, and cultural connections across contemporary Acadian PEI and the wider Francophonie.

• Autonomous reading strategies (toward A2+)
• Reading to analyze the writer's purpose
• Showing developed comprehension of varied texts
• Synthesizing information from a text

• Reading aloud with confident expression (toward A2+)
• Contemporary Acadian and francophone PEI

Unit 3: L'ecriture et la representation

Writing and representing at the top of the intermediate band: autonomous strategies to guide writing, and writing a variety of texts of different genres (print and digital) across the tense range with developed, defended ideas - building on Grade 8.

• Autonomous strategies to guide writing (toward A2+)
• Writing a developed argument text
• Writing a creative or reflective text