Grade 12 French Tutor
This year, students need to develop their abilities to communicating their critical thinking and opinions effectively in French. They will acquire the skills they need to be lifelong independent language learners and they will deepen their understanding of French cultures and communities across the globe.
Grade 12 French Sample Curriculum
Listening
- Identify a range of listening comprehension strategies, and use them before, during, and after listening to interpret explicit and implicit messages in oral French texts
- Demonstrate an understanding of explicit and implicit messages about a wide variety of topics in oral French texts, with support as appropriate
- Identify and use interactive listening strategies to suit a variety of situations while participating in social and academic interactions
- Respond with understanding to what others say while participating in interactions about a wide variety of topics, in formal and informal situations
- (a) Explain which strategies they found helpful before, during, and after listening; (b) identify their areas of greater and lesser strength as listeners, and plan steps they can take to improve their listening skills
- Using information from oral French texts, identify French-speaking communities worldwide, find out about aspects of their cultures, and make connections to personal experiences and their own and other communities
- Using information from oral French texts, identify and demonstrate an understanding of sociolinguistic conventions used in a variety of situations in diverse French-speaking communities
Speaking
- Identify a range of speaking strategies and use them to express themselves clearly and coherently in French for various purposes and to a variety of audiences
- Produce prepared and spontaneous messages in French to communicate information, ideas, and opinions about a wide variety of topics, with support as appropriate
- Speak with a smooth pace, appropriate intonation, and accurate pronunciation in prepared and spontaneous communications about a wide range of topics
- Communicate their meaning clearly, using parts of speech and word order appropriately
- Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate speaking behavior when interacting with others in a variety of formal and informal situations
- Exchange information, ideas, and opinions with others in prepared and spontaneous spoken interactions about a wide variety of topics, with support as appropriate
- (a) Explain which strategies they found helpful before, during, and after speaking to communicate effectively; (b) identify their areas of greater and lesser strength as speakers, and plan steps they can take to improve their speaking skills
- Communicate information orally about French-speaking communities worldwide, including aspects of their cultures and their contributions to la francophonie and the world, and make connections to personal experiences and their own and other communities
- Identify sociolinguistic conventions associated with a variety of social situations in diverse French-speaking communities and use them appropriately in spoken interactions
Reading
- Identify a variety of reading comprehension strategies and use them before, during, and after reading to understand French texts in various reading contexts
- Demonstrate an understanding of explicit and implicit messages in a variety of student-and teacher-selected French texts about academic and personally relevant topics
- Read a variety of French texts at a sufficient rate and with sufficient ease to demonstrate that they understand the overall sense of the text
- 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
- Identify the purpose(s) and characteristics of a variety of text forms, including fictional, informational, graphic, and media forms, and explain how the characteristics help communicate the meaning
- Identify some features and stylistic elements of a variety of text forms, including fictional, informational, graphic, and media forms, and explain how they help to convey explicit and implicit messages
- (a) Explain which strategies they found helpful before, during, and after reading to understand texts; (b) identify their areas of greater and lesser strength as readers, and plan steps they can take to improve their reading skills
- Using information from a variety of French texts, identify French-speaking communities worldwide, find out about aspects of their cultures, and make connections to personal experiences and their own and other communities
- Identify, in a variety of French texts, examples of sociolinguistic conventions associated with a variety of social situations in diverse French-speaking communities
Writing
- Determine their purpose in writing and the audience for the French texts they plan to create
- Write a variety of French texts to convey information, ideas, and opinions about academic and personally relevant topics, applying their knowledge of the structural and stylistic elements of each form
- Communicate their meaning clearly, using parts of speech appropriately and following conventions for correct spelling, word order, and punctuation
- Generate, develop, and organize ideas for writing using a variety of pre-writing strategies and resources
- Plan and produce drafts and revise their work using a variety of teacher-directed and independent strategies
- Make improvements to enhance the clarity and readability of their written work, and use various elements of effective presentation to produce a polished product for publication
- (a) Explain which strategies they found helpful before, during, and after writing; (b) identify their areas of greater and lesser strength as writers, and plan steps they can take to improve their writing skills
- In their written work, communicate information about French-speaking communities worldwide, including aspects of their cultures and their contributions to la francophonie and the world, and make connections to personal experiences and their own and other communities
- Identify sociolinguistic conventions associated with a variety of social situations in diverse French-speaking communities, and use them appropriately in their written work
