As part of grade 3 courses, students will integrate several aspects of the French language through lessons and diversified exercises. Studying in class and at home will reinforce their learning and autonomy. At the end of this program, students will have a good command of the basic elements of the French language.
Reading
- Short texts to complete
- Fill in the blanks
- Weekly reading
Spelling
- Words of the same family (same root)
- Synonyms and antonyms
- Word prefixes and suffixes
Grammar
- The gender and number of nouns (masculine and feminine)
- The feminine of qualifying adjectives
- Determinants
- Adverbs of manner
- Qualifying adjectives (of the nominal group)
- Nominal group (functional grammar)
- Synonyms
- Identify the subject of the sentence
- Adjectives of colour
- Time indicators (markers)
- The prefix, the root and the suffix of words
- The plural of adjectives
- Adjective and verb agreement
- Sentence analysis according to nature and function
- Verb analysis
- Introduction to parsing
- Grammatical homophones
- Object complements
- The complement of the name
- Use of qualifying adjectives
- Use of prepositions before country names
- The proposition
- Indefinite adjectives and pronouns
- Writing numbers in letters from 0 to 1000
Vocabulary
- Antonyms and synonyms
- Words of the same family
- List of opposite words
Conjugation
- The verb and groups of words
- The imperfect indicative
- Past - present - future vs. time indicators
- The present conditional of the indicative
- Imperfect tense 1st group -ER
- The simple future tense
- The perfect tense
- The present indicative (group 1, 2 and 3)
- The past participle (regular and irregular verbs)
Reading comprehension
- Introduction to reading comprehension
- Introduction to reading strategy
- Introduction to the study of texts
Dictation
- Weekly dictation
Homework
- Weekly reading assignments
- Weekly writing assignments
Videos
- Weekly French videos to watch at home (short cartoons)
