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Québec · Grade 1

English as a Second Language

Taught in French-language schools from Grade 1. Some schools offer intensive English in Grade 5 or 6.

Outline

Lessons for this subject are being written.

Below is how the official curriculum organizes it. Each strand will get full lessons like the ones in Grade 1 Mathematics.

Curriculum strands

C1To act on understanding of texts

Songs, rhymes and stories in English; showing understanding through gestures, actions and drawings

C2To communicate orally in English

Classroom routines, action words, colours, numbers, the alphabet and short expressions; imitating teacher-modelled language