Essential French Teacher's Guide Basic 8

Essential French offers you a premium course in French. The material has been developed to meet the full requirements of the Common Core curriculum for JHS, as developed by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), carefully addressing all strands, sub-strands, content standards, indicators and core competencies. Throughout the course, attitudes, values and skills as prescribed by the curriculum, are addressed. 

Essential French encourages learners to be responsible and creative citizens who are self-confident, digitally literate and excellent communicators

The Essential Basic 8 Learner’s Book offers you attractive pages with:

• accessible and relevant content, supported by meaningful photograhps and illustrations that bring French to life
• clear language for easy understanding
• clear explanations of basic concepts
• a variety of texts and activities to develop and consolidate knowledge and skills, including creative problem-solving skills to improve learner engagement
• assessment sections that can be used to evaluate progress and achievement.

The Essential Basic 8 Facilitator’s Guide enables you to teach the new curriculum withconfidence and offers:

• step-by-step teaching guidelines
• answers to activities in the Learner’s Book
• activities that can be used for diagnostic assessment
• suggestions for activities that can be used for Diagnostic assessment or as extra exercises and projects.
• suggestions for how to include local materials and ICT in the learning process
• a curriculum coverage tables at the start of each Strand indicating how Content Standards and Core Competencies are covered in the course.

Learning is Essential!