Skill Descriptor: Use listening strategies to understand the overall meaning and essential elements of a complex message related to topics of interest, current events, or providing information which incorporate elements of Francophone culture.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Make connections and comparisons between known and new information
• Spot important ideas (facts, opinions) or details (examples, descriptions, etc.)
• Predict the rest of the message
• Take notes on the topic or theme of the presentation and attach personal ideas and/or questions to them
• Understand the main points of audiovisual messages (TV show, film, TV news, weather forecast, commercials, short report with picture, listening centre, interactive whiteboard, tablet, etc.) or audio messages (broadcast radio, etc.) on familiar topics if people speak relatively slowly
• Grasp the general idea of the arguments on a familiar topic
• Understand the main ideas of a discussion on familiar topics when people speak clearly but sometimes help is needed figuring out the details
• Demonstrate understanding of most of what is said in everyday conversation topics but still need help clarifying specific details
• Demonstrate understanding of technical information such as operating instructions for tablets, mobile phones, televisions
• Follow well-articulated presentations on familiar topics
• Understand the main ideas in most TV shows on familiar topics when the language is relatively slow and clear
• Follow a short oral story to predict what will happen
• Demonstrate understanding of short weather forecasts if stated clearly

Skill Descriptor: Present knowledge and ideas, express feelings, and justify opinions on a range of topics of interest, current events, and information by using a variety of sentence structures, specific vocabulary, and expressions of Francophone culture.

Global Competencies: CM, CL, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Demonstrate a way to capture the interest of listeners (share an interesting fact, ask a question, etc.)
• Give a short, prepared presentation on familiar topics and answer clearly asked questions
• Check with listeners to see if the message is understood (observe facial expressions and gestures, ask questions, ask them to repeat the message, listen to and respond to their questions and comments, etc.)
• Express an opinion on a range of topics related to everyday life
• Choose the appropriate vocabulary, depending on the intent of the message (convincing, informing, entertaining, expressing, or telling a story)
• Describe a variety of familiar topics related to personal interests
• Relate the main content of short texts
• Relate what happened in a movie or a book and personal thoughts about it
• Describe personal dreams, hopes, and goals
• Use vocabulary and language functions properly if they are modelled and practised
• Explain rules of behaviour at school, how to play a game
• Talk in detail about experiences, feelings, and reactions
• Briefly explain and justify personal opinions
• Use expressions related to Francophone culture

Skill Descriptor: Express knowledge, ideas, and feelings, and justify opinions on a range of topics of interest, current events, and information by using a variety of sentence structures, specific vocabulary, and expressions of Francophone culture.

Global Competencies: CM, CL, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Check with listeners to see if the message is understood by observing their facial expressions and gestures, asking questions, asking them to repeat the message, listening and responding to questions and comments, etc.
• Express an opinion on a range of topics related to everyday life
• Choose the appropriate vocabulary, depending on the intent of the message (convincing, informing, entertaining, expressing yourself, or telling a story)
• Describe a variety of familiar topics related to personal interests
• Relate the main content of short texts that have been read
• Relate what happened in a movie or a book and say what is thought about it
• Describe personal dreams, hopes, and goals
• Use vocabulary and language functions properly if they are modelled and practised
• Explain rules (rules of behaviour at school, how to play a game)
• Talk in detail about experiences, feelings, and reactions
• Briefly explain and justify personal opinions
• Use expressions related to Francophone culture

Skill Descriptor: Actively participate in and encourage the exchange of ideas and opinions on topics of interest and academic topics using a variety of sentence structures, specific vocabulary, and expressions of Francophone culture.

Global Competencies: CM, CL, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Ask for or offer something and say thank you
• Ask and answer a variety of questions that keep a conversation moving forward
• Give and compare an opinion (on popular culture, bands, styles of music, movies, fashion, etc.) in a conversation with friends
• Use the appropriate language structures
• Give or ask for personal opinions in an informal discussion with friends, politely agreeing or disagreeing
• Help solve simple problems by expressing thoughts and asking others what they think
• Explain progress in schoolwork, and where you are having difficulty, to the teacher
• Advise someone on simple things (where to go, what to do)
• Ask for and follow detailed directions
• Start, maintain, and end simple one-on-one conversations on familiar topics and personal interests
• Maintain a discussion although others may have difficulty understanding exactly what is meant
• Express oneself and react to feelings or attitudes (amazement, happiness, sadness, frustration, indifference, etc.)
• Give and compare an opinion on popular culture, bands, styles of music, movies, fashion, etc., in a conversation with friends
• Have simple phone conversations
• Participate in group communications activities using technology to explore and/or solve simple problems and accomplish simple tasks

Skill Descriptor: Use strategies appropriate to the complexity of a text to comprehend its message/meaning.

Global Competencies: SASM, CL, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Recognize types of texts and their reading intention
• Identify and explain the strategies used
• Participate in reading activities in different contexts to come to an overall understanding of a text
• Identify the information sought, the overall meaning, or the components of various texts appropriate for Grade 9
• Demonstrate understanding of texts of various lengths that contain familiar words and tap into areas of interest (music, sports, travel, etc.)
• I can understand simple factual texts on subjects I am familiar with (sports reports from newspapers, brief reviews of books or movies, etc.)
• Demonstrate understanding of the main points of factual texts on subjects of personal interest well enough to discuss them later
• Find and understand the information I need in leaflets, brochures, or other material related to personal interests
• Demonstrate understanding of simplified versions of novels and follow ideas in short, clearly structured stories with effort and regular use of dictionaries
• Locate important information, such as expiration dates, ingredients, and recommended use, on labels and packages of food products, clothing, medications, etc.
• Follow directions to play a game, to prepare a meal
• Demonstrate understanding of simple personal letters and emails containing fairly detailed descriptions of events and experiences
• Demonstrate understanding of important facts in newspaper or magazine articles about common and familiar topics

Skill Descriptor: Use strategies appropriate to the complexity of the vocabulary in a text to comprehend unfamiliar words and elements of Francophone culture.

Global Competencies: CM, CL, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Look up the meaning of new words
• Learn new vocabulary words from context while reading
• Locate the most important information in authentic documents such as announcements, brochures, or timetables depending on the vocabulary used

Skill Descriptor: Write texts about topics of interest and academic topics.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Write for the purpose of informing, explaining, entertaining, or expressing ideas, feelings, and opinions
• Identify the intention and choose the type of text related to the target audience
• Recognize types of texts and their communication intention
• Write brief messages to tell friends about everyday situations (I’m late, the bus is late, I’m sick, etc.)
• Describe objects, places, and people using short, simple sentences
• Write a simple advertisement for classified ads online, a bulletin board, etc.
• Respond with a short message to an advertisement on classified ads online, a bulletin board, etc.
• Write about events or experiences describing what happened and where, and when it happened in simple sentences
• Write a simple story (best vacation, life in the future)
• Write simple compositions on familiar topics and connect ideas using words such as et, parce que, ensuite, etc.
• Complete a simple questionnaire, graphic organizer, or survey using full sentences

Skill Descriptor: Write texts following the phases of the writing process.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM, CL

Achievement Indicators:

• Identify strategies that will help before, during, and after writing
• Plan the writing process using a graphic organizer
• Write a first
• Reread text to self-correct using resources in the classroom (model texts, success criteria list, word wall, visual supports, personal dictionary, theme wall, readers, etc.)
• Meet in a group or one on one with peers to correct texts
• Publish a text of choice
• Use print or non-print resources, including technology, to help write words and simple sentences

Skill Descriptor: Write texts using the writing traits from model texts.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM, CL

Achievement Indicators:

• Present ideas related to any topic
• Present ideas in logical order
• Compose simple and complex sentences
• Spell common words correctly
• Spell correctly the words worked on in class that are related to the theme
• Start to use the right determiners (la, le, les, l’, des, ma, mon, notre, ces, ses, son, sa, etc.)