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.
Time and frequency; comparisons; reasons for emotions; beliefs and opinions; past, present and future time frames
Francophone communities around the world; cultural aspects of communities; elements of stories