Grade 8 Core French

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Now you have the help at home so that you can be more successful in French. Use the resources on the any of the pages as often as you need.
Below is a table of the units that will be covered during the year, along with information on the overall theme and what specifically will be covered.

Verb Conjugation Table (PDF)

Les Essentiels (PDF)

Unit
Theme
Curriculum Expectations

Au Casse-croûte

Making decisions about what to eat is not always easy! Students have an opportunity to create an original restaurant or snack bar with the foods of their choice.
- the irregular verbs vouloir, pouvoir and devoir
- verb agreement with compound nouns
- the imperative
- the partitive article (le partitif) with negation

La Chasse aux Indices

Think like a detective! Follow along as students uncover a song-writing mystery and the case of the missing skateboard. Students create an investigation, questioning "suspects" in order to solve a mystery.
- le passé composé with avoir
- the past participles of -er / -ir / -re verbs
- the past participles of irregular verbs
- adverbs ending in -ment

Choix multiples

Discover how hobbies and interests can develop into a career. Keeping their own interests in mind, students interview or research an individual with an intreguing career to create a profile.

- le passé composé with avoir and être

- comparative adjectives

- superlative adjectives

- the pronoun on

L'art sans limites

Art forms are as varied as interests and imagination! Students present their own masterpieces and participate in a class art exhibit.
- review the partitive article with negation
- the pronoun en
- review le passé composé with avoir and être