French as a Second Language – Senior High School Courses

French 20 (Intermediate 4/5)

COMPONENTS

French 20 
(Intermediate French 4/5)

 Based on their life experiences, learners will be able to, depending on the field of experience:
Experience/engage in various language experiences in the following fields:

close friends
fashion
social life
outdoor activities
clubs and associations
shopping
senses and feelings

and other fields that relate to their needs and interests;

Communication

understand the meaning of a series of interrelated ideas in oral or written texts dealing with a familiar topic, primarily in structured situations and to some extent in unstructured situations;

express their communicative intent by producing, orally or in writing, a series of interrelated ideas, mostly prepared in advance but sometimes spontaneously, based on the communicative task;

Culture

research and identify the similarities and differences between their own culture and francophone cultures at the provincial/regional, national and to some extent international levels;

Language

understand the sound-symbol system, vocabulary as well as word and sentence order appropriate to simple oral or written texts in the present, future and past tenses;

use, orally and in writing, the sound-symbol system related to vocabulary appropriate to the field of experience, employing simple and complex sentences, especially in the present and the future tenses, occasionally in the past tense, and the following linguistic elements:

the comparative and superlative
adverbs and adverbial expressions
expressions with the verb faire
questions using inversion
emphatic pronouns
cohesive elements (word connectors) at the sentence level
direct object pronoun (with present tense verbs)
indirect object pronoun (with present tense verbs)
the passé composé and the imparfait (without necessarily discriminating between passé composé and imparfait usages);

General
Language Education

formulate hypotheses about key points (cognitive);

use illustrations, non-verbal cues or a dictionary to facilitate their comprehension and use of words (cognitive);

accept that errors are a normal part of learning and correct them willingly when they are pointed out by someone else (socio-affective);

identify individual needs by defining the problem and selecting strategies, among various choices appropriate to the task at hand, as a means of organizing learning (metacognitive).