French as a Second Language (Core French)

Bon retour ! Welcome to your third year of Core French. In Grade 4 you learned to greet people, introduce yourself and talk about the weather, your family and your likes. In Grade 5 you asked questions, counted to 100, told time, described people, feelings and your home, talked about hobbies and food, gave directions and discovered la francophonie. In Grade 6 you'll discuss ideas and agree or disagree politely, describe your daily routine, make plans with the near future, tell what you did with the past, shop for clothes, talk about health, weather forecasts and the environment, explore jobs, and learn how French changes between casual and polite situations, with Canadian expressions and Franco-Ontarian life. At the end, you'll plan, rehearse and record your own podcast (un balado) and interview a guest.

Every new word has a sound-it-out spelling so a grown-up who doesn't speak French can help too, and words used mostly in Canada are labelled Canadian French. Every lesson has examples to listen to, a hands-on activity, lots of practice and a short quiz. The sibling unit, Reading and Writing in French, covers the reading and writing strands.

Curriculum expectations covered: A1.1, A1.2, A2.1, A2.2, A2.3, A3 (intercultural understanding), B1.1, B1.2, B1.3, B2.1, B2.2, B2.3, B3 (intercultural understanding), B3.2 (The Ontario Curriculum: French as a Second Language, Core French, Grades 4–8, 2013, Grade 6).

Welcome to Grade 6 reading and writing in French! In Grade 5 you read and wrote emails, interviews, posters, invitations, recipes, reviews, fact cards and a short story, using the present tense, the four big verbs, questions, negatives, adjectives, the futur proche and commands. This year you will learn to tell what happened, convince a reader and connect with French speakers across Canada.

You will read a news article, a blog, a camp journal, a comic, a notice of rules, ads, poems, a formal letter and a magazine page, and you will write your own versions. Along the way you will learn the passé composé with avoir and être, reflexive verbs (je me lève), -ir and -re verbs, pouvoir, vouloir, devoir, comparisons (plus ... que, le meilleur), all the possessive adjectives, the difference between familiar and formal French, and Canadian French conventions for prices, numbers, dates and addresses. You will make inferences, check your own understanding, and finish with a personal narrative that goes through every stage of the writing process. Canadian French words are labelled as you go.

Explanations are in English so a child and a parent can learn together, even if no one at home speaks French. The companion unit Listening and Speaking covers the oral strands.

Curriculum expectations covered: C1, C2, C3, D1, D2, D3 (The Ontario Curriculum: French as a Second Language, Core French, Grades 4–8, 2013, Grade 6 overall expectations).