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Reading and Writing in French: Telling, Convincing and Connecting: Unit Review

C1 C2 C3 D1 D2 D3About 40 minutes
Learning goals
  • I can use reading strategies, inferences and fix-up strategies to understand articles, blogs, journals, comics, notices, ads, poems, letters and magazine pages.
  • I can write about the past with the passé composé (avoir and être).
  • I can use reflexive verbs, -ir and -re verbs, pouvoir, vouloir, devoir, comparisons and possessives.
  • I can choose a familiar or formal register and use Canadian French conventions.
  • I can plan, draft, revise, edit and publish a personal narrative.

Words to know

le passé composé
avoir or être + past participle: j'ai joué, je suis allé(e).
un verbe pronominal
A reflexive verb: je me lève.
le comparatif / le superlatif
plus ... que / le plus ...
le registre
Familiar or formal language.
une inférence
Clue in the text + what I know.
réviser / corriger
Revise (improve) / edit (fix).

Let's review!

In this unit you read and wrote a news article, a blog, a camp journal, a comic, a notice of rules, ads, poems, a formal letter, a magazine page and a personal narrative. You learned the passé composé with avoir and être, reflexive verbs, -ir and -re verbs, pouvoir, vouloir, devoir, comparisons, all the possessives, and many Canadian French words and conventions.

This review has a few questions from every lesson. Try each one, then press Show answer to check. If a part feels tricky, go back to that lesson.

Lire un article: Reading a News Article Like a Reporter

1

Which question word asks why?

2

Read: Les élèves portent des bottes et des manteaux. Ils font un bonhomme de neige. Make an inference: what season is it?

3

Name two fix-up strategies.

4

What is a citation in an article?

Le passé composé avec avoir: Reading and Writing a Trip Blog

1

Write in the passé composé: Nous mangeons des crêpes.

2

Past participle of prendre, lire and voir?

3

Make negative: J'ai fini.

Is the verb in the house of être,or a reflexive verb?yesnoêtreparticiple AGREESavoirNO agreementElle est arrivée.Elle s'est habillée.Elle a mangé.Elle a fait du ski.
Review: choose the helper first. With être the participle agrees with the subject; with avoir it does not.

Le passé composé avec être: Reading and Writing a Camp Journal

1

Complete: Elle est ___ (partir) à 8 h.

2

Avoir or être? Ils ___ arrivés.

3

Fix: Nous avons allés au lac.

Les verbes pronominaux: Reading a Comic and Writing a Daily Routine

1

Complete: Je ___ habille.

2

Make negative: Il se lève.

3

What is une bulle in a comic?

Les verbes en -ir et -re; pouvoir, vouloir, devoir: Reading Rules and Notices

1

Complete: Vous ___ (finir) à 15 h.

2

Fix: Tu dois attends.

3

What does Défense de courir mean?

tuque Achaleurchaudetuque Bchaleurplus chaude que Atuque Cchaleurla plus chaudeRemember: bon → meilleur → le meilleur (never « plus bon »).
Review: chaude (describes one), plus chaude que (compares two), la plus chaude (the most of all). Tuque is a une word, so the adjective ends in -e.

Comparer et convaincre: Reading Ads and Writing Comparisons

1

Complete: Ma tuque est ___ chaude ___ ta casquette. (warmer than)

2

Fix: C'est le plus bon gâteau.

3

Write 7 dollars and 99 cents the Canadian French way.

La poésie: Reading and Writing Poems

1

What is a strophe?

2

Write line 2 of a cinquain about la neige (feminine).

3

Find the comparison: Le lac brille comme un miroir.

Les registres et les possessifs: Writing a Formal Letter

1

Complete: ___ (our) enseignante est gentille.

2

Fix: ma amie

3

Formal or familiar? Veuillez agréer, Madame, mes salutations distinguées.

La francophonie au Canada: Reading a Magazine Page and Writing a Community Profile

1

Write 10,000 the French way.

2

What is un dépanneur?

3

Name one official language of Nunavut besides English and French.

Le processus d'écriture: Writing a Personal Narrative

1

Name the 4 parts of the personal narrative plan.

2

Fix (a girl writes): Je suis tombé dans la neige.

3

What is the difference between revising and editing?

Just for fun

Riddle: Which French verb is the best at hide-and-seek?

Se cacher (to hide)... it's a reflexive verb, so it always hides itself! 🙈

How to use this review

Do one section at a time. If you get most of a section right, great! If you miss more than one, go back to that lesson and redo its More practice questions. Then take the quiz below.

Check your understanding

Quiz

1.

Which question asks when?

2.

Hier, j'___ joué au hockey.

3.

Mes cousines sont ___ hier. (venir)

4.

Nous ___ couchons à 21 h.

5.

Ils ___ (vouloir) jouer dehors.

6.

Which is correct?

7.

A line of a poem is called...

8.

Les élèves et ___ enseignant (their, one teacher)

9.

Which price is written the Canadian French way?

10.

In deux étoiles et un souhait, the two stars are...

For parents and teachers

Use mistakes to choose what to revisit. Each review section matches one lesson.

  • Misses the 5 W's, makes unsupported guesses, or gives up on hard words: revisit Lire un article: Reading a News Article Like a Reporter.
  • Writes j'ai manger, je mangé, or je n'ai fini pas: revisit Le passé composé avec avoir: Reading and Writing a Trip Blog.
  • Writes j'ai allé, or forgets -e/-s agreement with être: revisit Le passé composé avec être: Reading and Writing a Camp Journal.
  • Writes je lave (for je me lave), nous se levons, or je me brosse mes dents: revisit Les verbes pronominaux: Reading a Comic and Writing a Daily Routine.
  • Writes nous finons, or vous devez attendez: revisit Les verbes en -ir et -re; pouvoir, vouloir, devoir: Reading Rules and Notices.
  • Writes plus bon, forgets agreement in comparisons, or writes prices as $5.25: revisit Comparer et convaincre: Reading Ads and Writing Comparisons.
  • Confuses vers and strophe, or forgets adjective agreement in a cinquain: revisit La poésie: Reading and Writing Poems.
  • Uses Salut or abbreviations in formal writing, or writes ma amie / leurs (for one thing): revisit Les registres et les possessifs: Writing a Formal Letter.
  • Writes big numbers with commas, capitalizes months, or calls Canadian words wrong: revisit La francophonie au Canada: Reading a Magazine Page and Writing a Community Profile.
  • Skips planning, writes one long paragraph, or edits everything at once: revisit Le processus d'écriture: Writing a Personal Narrative.

Expectations: This unit covers the Grade 6 Reading overall expectations C1 (comprehension strategies and reflection), C2 (purpose, form and style of text forms) and C3 (intercultural understanding and sociolinguistic conventions), and the Writing overall expectations D1 (purpose, audience and form), D2 (the writing process) and D3 (intercultural understanding and sociolinguistic conventions).