Essential French Basic 7, 8 & 9 Facilitator’s Guide

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 series, attitudes, values and skills - as indicated in 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 7, 8 & 9 Learner's Book offers you attractive pages with:

• accessible and relevant content, supported by meaningful photographs 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 and problem-solving skills to improve learner engagement
• assessment pages that can be used to evaluate progress and achievement.

The ESSENTIAL Basic 7, 8 & 9 Facilitator's Guide supports you to teach the new curriculum with confidence and offers:

• step-by-step teaching guidelines
• answers to activities in the Learner's Book
• 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
• templates for assessment
• a Curriculum coverage table indicating how the strands, sub-strands, content standards and indicators are covered in the course.

Learning is Essential!