LOW INTERMEDIATE
Grade 5- Students will continue to develop their skills from the Grade 4 curriculum. For example, they will explore various sentence types (declarative, interrogative and exclamatory), model the effective use of three forms of impératif, and they will use word structures, root words, prefixes, and suffixes to assist understanding of their readings.
Grade 6 – Students will continue to develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills of the French language. For example, students will demonstrate the use of comparatives and superlatives when comparing text, use connecting words to summarize text, and they will review subject verb agreement in various verb tenses for writing in the first or third person.
HIGH INTERMEDIATE
Grade 7 –As students enter Intermediate French they will continue to expand their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. They will continue to apply their language learning strategies. For example, students will listen for coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions to identify similar and contrasting point of views, use descriptive adjectives and adverbs to add detail and interest in their writing, and they will confirm word meanings and review, refine and vary word choices, using a variety of resources.
Grade 8 – Students will further explore their French language skills while interacting in French for a variety of purposes and using appropriate strategies. For example, students will demonstrate understanding of appropriate speaking behavior in a variety of situations, identify and use a variety of different strategies to expand vocabulary through reading, and determine their purpose for writing and the audience for French texts they plan to create.
ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE
Grade 9 – Students will further explore the French language and continue to develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. For example, they will identify a range of listening comprehension strategies, and use them before, during, and after listening to understand oral French text as well as exchange information, ideas, and opinions with the teacher and their peers in structured and guided spoken interactions about matters of personal interests and academic topics.
Grade 10- Students are continuing to develop their French language skills. For example, students will expand their repertoire of expressions for stating opinions, including the position of object pronouns. They will use a variety of vocabulary-acquisition strategies before, during, and after reading to determine or confirm the meaning of new, unfamiliar, or recently learned words and expressions. As well as, communicating their meaning clearly, using parts of speech appropriately and following conventions for correct spelling, word order, and punctuation.