English as a Second Language (Core), Secondary Cycle One — Year 2
Quebec · Grade 8 · English as an Additional Language — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Language Repertoire
Functional language and vocabulary by broad communicative area — sentence patterns and grammar in the service of getting a message across in English.
- Using English: Begins/ends telephone exchanges and uses voice mail
- Using English: Asks about people, animals, objects, places
- Using English: States opinions
- Using English: Asks about capabilities
- Using English: Asks about others’ interests, tastes and preferences
- Using English: Asks about others’ decision/indecision
- Using English: Asks about needs, wants and obligations
- Using English: Asks for suggestions
- Using English: Uses targeted vocabulary related to students’ interests and
- Using English: Uses rising and falling voice pitch to convey meaning
- Using English: Uses appropriate stress and pronunciation for words frequent
Unit 2: Strategies
Learner strategies — communication, learning, self-management and metacognitive moves that help a francophone learner keep going in English.
- Using English: Constructs a meaningful sentence by putting together known w
- Using English: Writes down relevant information in an organized way
- Using English: Makes positive statements during a task and congratulates se
- Using English: Reduces stress by reminding self of goals, progress made and
- Using English: Pushes oneself to experiment with language and ideas without
Unit 3: Processes
The response, writing and production processes — preparation, realisation and reflection — that scaffold a francophone learner’s English output.
- Using English: Uses strategies, guiding questions, prompts and knowledge of
- Using English: Identifies important details of texts
- Using English: Identifies text components in model written texts
- Using English: Researches topic
- Using English: Selects appropriate language
- Using English: Writes down ideas, opinions, thoughts and feelings while ref
- Using English: Identifies text components in model media texts
- Using English: Targets purpose, audience and culture
- Using English: Constructs outline of media text
Unit 4: Texts
Text types, components and organisation — how English texts are put together and how a learner uses that to understand and produce them.
- Using English: Uses text components to construct meaning when listening to,
- Using English: Applies knowledge of text components to write and produce te
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