Core French

Take the Grade 9 basics — the present tense, questions, adjectives and comparisons — and make them precise, with spelling-change verbs, savoir versus connaître, inversion, meaning-changing adjectives, adverbs and every kind of comparison.

Tell stories in the past with precision: past-participle agreement, a step-by-step method for choosing the imparfait or the passé composé, the plus-que-parfait for the past before the past, every kind of pronominal verb, and the structure of a biography or autobiography.

Move beyond facts to plans, possibilities and needs: the futur simple and the conditionnel built on one shared stem, the conditionnel for politeness, advice and reported speech, real and hypothetical si clauses, the subjonctif after il faut que, and the phrases that make an opinion persuasive.

Replace nouns the way fluent speakers do: object pronouns in every tense, y and en in depth, two pronouns at once, pronouns with commands, stressed and possessive pronouns, and the relative pronouns qui, que, dont and où.