French as a Second Language – Senior High School Courses

French 31c (Advanced 9)

COMPONENTS

French 31c 
(Advanced French 9)

 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:

dealing with government
humour
becoming independent
novels
social trends and issues

and other fields that relate to their needs and interests;

Communication

understand and interpret the meaning of the main points and most supporting details in familiar and unfamiliar oral or written communications;

express their communicative intent, orally and in writing, by developing their ideas coherently, mainly spontaneously, based on the communicative task;

Culture

examine and analyze, independently, the contribution of francophone cultures to our society by interpreting information, events or behaviour in contemporary francophone cultures;

Language

understand the sound-symbol system and vocabulary appropriate to the field of experience, and determine the coherence appropriate to oral or written texts of varying length and complexity;

use, orally and in writing, the sound-symbol system related to vocabulary appropriate to the field of experience, employing simple and complex sentences in the appropriate tenses with appropriate cohesion markers and linguistic elements;

refine all elements of all preceding sublevels;

General
Language Education

formulate hypotheses and verify their accuracy by reading a text or by asking questions for clarification (cognitive);

establish pro and con arguments to assess the validity of a communication (cognitive);

seek opportunities to use French spontaneously in a variety of contexts (socio-affective);

select the best linguistic form to express their communicative intent in a specific context or situation (metacognitive).