French 8 is a modern language course

that every person will take (with exceptions).

In French 8, you learn the basics

to that of learning any other language

Vocabulary

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• Definite articles 
  le (masculine singular)
  la (feminine singular)
  les (plural)
  l’ (used before vowels)   
        

• Indefinite articles  (varies based on gender and number)
  Un – masculine singular
  Une – feminine singular
  Des – plural for both masculine and feminine
   

• French pronouns
  je (I)
  tu (you)
  il/elle (he/she)
   

• Introduction phrases / greetings
  Comment ça va? (How are you?)
  Je m’appelle… (My name is…)
   

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• French objects + Parts of speech
  You will learn about french objects and their names in  french (nouns)
  Also you'll learn about parts of speech
  verbs
  prepositions
  adverbs
  adjectives
   

• French phonetic alphabet
  some letters pronunciation are reversed with others
   

• French numbers
  numbers have different names and that's it
   

• French seasons
  Seasons have different names
   

• French months
  months have different names
   

• French days of the weeks
  Days of the weeks have different names
   

To strengthen these skills, you will work on doing
 

• Conversations
   

• roleplaying / skits
   

• Singing
   

• written work
   

• Presentations
  
  grading (sourced from Parma Tam)
   

• Start up assignment = 5%

• Auto graded assignments: 10%

• Teacher-graded written tasks:10%

• Oral tasks: 10%

• Quizzes: 10%

• Midterms: 10%

• Projects: 15%

• Final exam: 25%