As part of grade 6 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
- Complete a text
- Find the place of terms extracted from a text
- Inferences
- Fill in the blanks
- Synonymous words in a text
Spelling
- Silent letters and invariable words
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Homonyms
- Opposites of words (words of the same family)
- Grammatical spelling and morphology
- Word formation
Grammar
- Gender and number
- Classes and functions of words
- Grammatical classes
- Homophones – When – As to – that in
- What is CO-COD and COI
- Direct and indirect complement pronouns
- Grammatical spelling and morphology
- Opposite words
- Noun groups
- The formation of the plural of nouns
- The noun phrase and its expansions
- Simple relative pronouns
- Word families
- Text analysis
- Grammar analysis – functions
- Sentence analysis
- Determinants
- Qualifying adjective attribute or epithet
- The adverb
- The formation of adverbs in –MENT
- Agreement in name group
- Possessive pronouns
- Prepositions - De-chez-en-etc.
- Simple prepositions
- The prepositional group
- Relative pronouns – advanced
- A function - subject attribute
- Use of coordinating conjunctions
- The active voice and the passive voice
- Attributes
Vocabulary
- Antonyms and synonyms
- Literal and figurative meaning
- Synonyms of words
Conjugation
- The past tense
- Concordance in the past tense
- Past concordance – the imperfect
- Past tense – choose the auxiliaries (avoir and being)
- The conditional past
- The present imperative
- The present imperative of pronominal verbs
- Simple past indicative
- The present conditional
- The present and past imperative
- Agreement of past participles
- Imperfect and past simple
- Past perfect
Reading comprehension
- Introduction to reading comprehension
- Introduction to reading strategy
- Introduction to the study of texts
Writing
- Sentence building
- Text correction
Dictation
- Weekly dictation
Homework
- Weekly reading assignments to be done in class
- Weekly writing homework assignments
Videos
- Weekly viewings of French videos at home (short cartoons)
