A second language is required in Grades 5 to 8. Most schools teach Core French; districts may offer another language from the B.C. Languages curriculum instead.
Below is how the official curriculum organizes it. Each strand will get full lessons like the ones in Grade 1 Mathematics.
French alphabet and sounds; gender and number; greetings, introductions, questions, likes and dislikes, simple descriptions
Francophone communities across Canada; a Francophone festival or celebration in Canada; ethics of cultural appropriation