Québec · Grade 5

English as a Second Language

Taught in French-language schools from Grade 1. Some schools offer intensive English in Grade 5 or 6.

Outline

Lessons for this subject are being written.

Below is how the official curriculum organizes it. Each strand will get full lessons like the ones in Grade 1 Mathematics.

Curriculum strands

C1To interact orally in English

Functional language for routines, asking for help, giving opinions and teamwork; topics on broader topics such as ecology, heroes and children from other countries

C2To reinvest understanding of oral and written texts

Listening to and reading stories, songs and information texts; using cues, predicting and skimming; reusing ideas in a task

C3To write texts

Writing short texts with a model; word order, plurals, articles, verb tenses, capitals and punctuation