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Core French

Grade 9 Academic, following the Ontario curriculum.

  • 5 units
  • 26 lessons
  • 290 practice questions
  • 231 flashcards
  • 2 simulators
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Units

Unit 1 · 6 lessons

Les bases: Sounds, Nouns and the Present Tense

Rebuild the foundations of French from scratch: how the language sounds and is spelled, how nouns and articles work, how to conjugate regular and essential irregular verbs in the present, and how to ask questions and say no.

  1. 1Sounds, Accents and Linking Words
  2. 2Nouns, Gender and Articles
  3. 3The Present Tense: Regular Verbs
  4. 4The Present Tense: Essential Irregular Verbs
  5. 5Expressions with Avoir and Verbs with À and De
  6. 6Asking Questions and Saying No
Unit 2 · 5 lessons

Décrire: Describing People, Places and Things

Learn to describe the world in French: make adjectives agree and put them in the right place, say whose things are whose, compare people and things, explain where objects are, and walk through your daily routine and the time of day.

  1. 1Adjective Agreement and Placement
  2. 2Possessive and Demonstrative Adjectives
  3. 3Comparing with Plus, Moins, Aussi and Meilleur
  4. 4Describing Where Things Are
  5. 5Daily Routine: Reflexive Verbs and Telling Time
Unit 3 · 5 lessons

Raconter: Past, Present and Future

Tell stories across time in French: say what happened with the passé composé (with avoir and with être), describe how things used to be with the imparfait, talk about plans, hopes and part-time jobs in the future, and anchor it all with time markers, sequencing words and si clauses.

  1. 1The Passé Composé with Avoir
  2. 2The Passé Composé with Être
  3. 3The Imparfait: Describing the Past
  4. 4Talking About the Future
  5. 5Time Markers, Sequencing and Si Clauses
Unit 4 · 5 lessons

Communiquer: Pronouns, Commands and Connecting Ideas

Sound more natural in French by replacing nouns with object pronouns and y and en, giving instructions with the impératif, linking ideas with qui, que and connectors, and choosing the polite or casual way to speak.

  1. 1Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns
  2. 2The Pronouns Y and En
  3. 3Giving Instructions: The Impératif
  4. 4Linking Ideas: Qui, Que and Connectors
  5. 5Politeness and Register: Tu, Vous and Je voudrais
Unit 5 · 5 lessons

La francophonie and Real-World Texts

Meet French-speaking communities in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean, then put your French to work on real texts: reading ads, emails and train schedules, writing a polished opinion paragraph, and cracking new words with cognates, faux amis and word families.

  1. 1French-Speaking Africa
  2. 2French in Asia, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean
  3. 3Reading Real Texts: Forms, Features and Schedules
  4. 4Writing in French: From Ideas to a Polished Paragraph
  5. 5Cracking New Words: Cognates, Faux Amis and Word Families

Simulators

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FSF1D
Conjugation Lab

Pick a verb, a subject and a tense and watch the form get built from its stem, ending and auxiliary, then test yourself on the forms that trip people up.

Used in 4 lessons
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Agreement Lab

Change a noun's gender and number and watch every article, adjective and past participle around it change to agree, with the rule for each ending shown.

Used in 2 lessons