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A. LISTENING OVERALL EXPECTATIONS
By the end of this course, students will:
A1. Listening to Understand: determine meaning in a variety of authentic and adapted oral French texts, using a range of listening strategies;
A2. Listening to Interact: interpret messages accurately while interacting in French for a variety of purposes and with diverse audiences;
A3. Intercultural Understanding: demonstrate an understanding of information in oral French texts about aspects of culture in diverse French-speaking communities and other communities around the world, and of French sociolinguistic conventions used in a variety of situations and communities.
SPECIFIC EXPECTATIONS
A1. Listening to Understand
By the end of this course, students will:
A1.1 Using Listening Comprehension Strategies: identify a range of listening comprehension strategies, and use them before, during, and after listening to understand explicit and implicit messages in oral French texts (e.g., identify familiar language structures and expressions; use a summary chart to record key ideas during a discussion; use teacher- and student-generated headings to organize note taking; make associations with prior knowledge while listening; use a graphic organizer to indicate their level of interest while listening)
Teacher prompts: “Quelles stratégies les producteurs des publicités télévisées utilisent-ils pour s’assurer que leur message est retenu par tous?” “Comment est-ce que tu essaies de deviner le sens des mots que tu ne comprends pas?” “Pourquoi est-ce important de prendre des notes d’une façon ou d’une autre (p. ex., outil d’organisation, liste de contrôle) en écoutant?”
Instructional tips:
(1) Before a listening task, teachers can use a think-aloud to model the creation of a word web of vocabulary related to the topic.
(2) Teachers can suggest that students listen for repetition of patterns that emphasize key ideas or messages.
A1.2 Demonstrating Understanding: demon- strate an understanding of explicit and implicit messages about a variety of topics in oral French texts, with contextual and visual support (e.g., identify key ideas in an announcement at
a community event; watch a video or listen to a recorded dialogue set in a medical clinic and identify essential vocabulary and expressions; after listening to a weather forecast for the weekend, describe the expected weather; extract the main message from
a short podcast about a financial issue; predict the reaction of an environmentalist to an excerpt from a news report they have heard; listen to a presenta- tion on co-op programs and articulate an opinion on the benefits of participating)
Teacher prompts: “Quelles perspectives sont
et ne sont pas représentées dans ce message?” “Comment peux-tu faire ressortir l’information pertinente d’une présentation afin d’accroître tes connaissances?”
Instructional tip: Teachers can suggest
that students list temporal words heard in announcements, such as “quand”, “pendant”, “lors de”.
A2. Listening to Interact
By the end of this course, students will:
A2.1 Using Interactive Listening Strategies: identify and use interactive listening strategies to suit a variety of situations while participating
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