FIF1D - Course Outline

Grade 9 Immersion French

Course description

This course enables students to enhance their knowledge of the French language and to further their language skills through the study of twentieth-century North American francophone literature and culture. Students will participate in oral communication, reading, and writing activities as they study an authentic novel and selected authentic poems, legends, songs, films, and newspaper articles from French-speaking parts of North America.

Prerequisite: grade eight early or late immersion

This course is for students who have successfully completed grade eight early or late immersion. Grade nine students who completed their elementary education in a francophone school should be enrolled in grade ten French immersion.
Students enrolled in this course are expected to take grade nine Math, Science and Geography in French also.

Expectations

Oral Communication
By the end of this course, students will:

• listen and respond to a variety of spoken texts and media works intended for a French-speaking audience;
• discuss ideas and opinions relating to topics being studied;
• understand simple statements spoken in the accent or the idiom of various French-speaking regions in North America;
• use appropriate language conventions during oral communication activities.

  Specific Speaking Expectations:

• role-play interviews of people associated with the literature or culture under study or of a character in a film, video, or book;
• discuss ideas and opinions about topics relating to North American francophone culture;
• dramatize a scene from a reading selection;
• present a monologue or an impromptu speech;
• retell a story, describing in particular the sequence of events

Reading

• read a variety of materials intended for a French-speaking audience;
• gather information for different purposes from a variety of sources and apply it in other contexts;
• read literary works and other authentic texts to acquire an understanding of the cultures of French-speaking people in North America;
• identify and understand language conventions used in their reading materials.

  Specific Reading Expectations:

• summarize orally or in writing, the content of a variety of texts they have read;
• skim text for specific information;
• present a hypothesis based on their reading and justify their conclusions;
• identify the plot, setting, and characters in a story, and demonstrate how they are interrelated;
• identify the writer's intent or point of view in songs and poetry.
• recognize and understand stylistic devices.

Writing

• communicate ideas and opinions clearly and coherently, choosing a form appropriate to the context;
• write in a variety of forms, adjusting the language to suit the audience
• identify and use appropriate language conventions in their written work.

Specific Writing Expectations:

• write multi-paragraph texts that include an introduction, the development of ideas through linking paragraphs, and a conclusion;
• writes letters, e-mail messages, journals and other texts of a practical nature;
• write a short critique of a book, a video, or a film;
• use different forms of writing to suit the purpose of the task;
  
• produce a written assignment (a minimum of 500 words);
• revise, edit, and proofread their writing, focusing on grammar, spelling, punctuation, and conventions of style.

Language Structures
Students should recognize and use the following language structures in all three strands

• Nouns and pronouns:
  
  • position of two object pronouns with simple and compound verbs in affirmative and negative sentences
  • demonstrative pronouns, possessive pronouns, relative pronouns
  • expressions of quantity and partitives
• Verbs
  • passé composé of verbs conjugated with être, including agreement of the past participle
  • agreement with the preceding direct object of the past participle of verbs conjugated with avoir in affirmative and negative sentences
  • affirmative and negative infinitives following impersonal expressions
  • passé composé in past narration and description
  • faire causatif
  • passé composé of reflexive and pronominal verbs
  • sequence of tenses with si using the imparfait and the conditionnel présent
  • subjonctif présent with impersonal expressions

Resources

Throughout the course various authentic documents (ex. songs, articles, films, television and radio programs) will be integrated into the program.

To be purchased by the students:

French-English dictionary
strongly recommended : Bescherelle / l'art de conjuguer

Evaluation