Curriculum : French B in Grade 9 and Grade 10

GENERAL | GRADE 9 | GRADE 10

I - GENERAL AIMS
In Grade 9 and Grade 10, students are prepared to face the demands of the IB diploma in French B Higher and Standard Level. The course intends to reinforce and expand the student's basic knowledge of French grammar and vocabulary, encourages and develops self-expression and creativity in oral and written production while fostering the students' ability and desire to comprehend and appreciate selected excerpts from French authors. Texts, songs, videos and internet resources are used in order to achieve these goals.

II - WORK FRAME AND CONTENT AREAS
Meeting times: 5 periods of 64 minutes per 8-Day Cycle.
1 - Grammar
2 - Oral expression
3 - Written expression / composition

III - HOMEWORK and CLASSWORK
There is a weekly written assignment either in the form of an exercize, a quiz, test or essay :
- Grammar: one quiz at half of the chapter and one test at the end of each chapter.
- Oral: class participation is recorded. Individual presentations take place once a term.

IV - ASSESSMENT
50% written work : quizzes, tests and essays
20% oral work : class participation and oral reports
10% daily homework
20% final exam

Grade 9 - French B

A. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

1. To attain increasing competence in understanding and speaking French.
2. To increase the student's ability to read new material in French with direct comprehension.
3. To develop further ability to write French without resorting to translation

B.SKILLS TO BE TAUGHT:

1. ORAL SKILLS
a) to be able to understand dialogues on video / audiocassettes, as well as passages read out loud without having the accompanying text
b) to further improve accent, pronunciation and intonation through reading and speaking
c) to increase degree of fluency and ease in conversation

2. WRITTEN SKILLS
a) to improve spelling with more emphasis on grammatical inflections
b) to be able to build more complex sentences and paragraphs, leading to short compositions.

C. COURSE CONTENT:

Viens- voir, Scott Foresman: Chapters 1 to 8 - approximately

1. VOCABULARY pertaining to aspects of daily French life such as the school system, arts and entertainment, the media and the French-speaking world.

2. GRAMMAR
- review of regular and irregular verbs (present and passé- compose)
- reflexive verbs
-the imparfait and the imparfait vs. the passé- compose
- the future tense
-direct and indirect object pronouns, pronouns en and y
- time permitting: the conditional - clauses with si

3. ORAL AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION
- short oral reports on current events or personal experience
- written compositions and dialogues relating to topics studied in class, short letters and summaries

D. TEACHING RESOURCES:

Viens-voir, Scott Foresman French program textbook
Practice sheet workbook
450 exercices de grammaire- niveau debutant, Cle
Six contes de Maupassant de Roussy de Sales
CA VA, magazine for 3rd and 4th year students.

Grade 10 - French B

A. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

- To develop an increased fluency in the language and competence in presenting oral reports on current events and personal experience.
- To increase the students' ability to read new material in French with greater comprehension.
- To develop further ability to write composition and summaries in French without resorting to translation.

B. SKILLS TO BE TAUGHT:

1. ORAL SKILLS:
a - To listen, and understand, increasingly complex passages in French.
b - To distinguish between main and secondary ideas.
c - To further improve accent, pronunciation, and intonation through reading and speaking.
d -To increase degree of fluency and ease in conversation and oral presentations.
e - To eliminate anglicisms in speech.

2. WRITTEN SKILLS:
a - To write a narrative and descriptive composition with emphasis on: structure (introduction, development, conclusion), the logical development of ideas, and unity in style and tense.
b - To write a concise summary, without paraphrasing.

C. COURSE CONTENT:

1 - GRAMMAR and SPELLING:
Students systematically review and strengthen the grammar acquired during the previous grades through an in-depth study of grammatical structures. Students review all the tenses and moods and the different parts of the complex sentence.

2 - ORAL EXPRESSION:
Students are asked to give occasional oral reports on currents events, personal experience, and problems and issues of the contemporary world.

3 - COMPOSITION:
Students are taught how to write a well-organized essay on various topics.
Subjects range form ethical questions to specific problems of the contemporary world such as environment issues.

D. TEACHING RESOURCES:

Interaction, St. Onge & Kulick
French magazines and newspapers
Films (comedies, classics, documentaries)

Pascal Saura

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