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Extended French

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Speaker: Yeah, same connections all at Newtonbrook and um, extended-French and French-Immersion. Emma Thrombly's in that and so I ve had a class with her as well. So I've known her through that.
Late-entry French immersion programs beginning around Grade 7 or 8 (as opposed to early immersion programs, which may begin as early as kindergarten).
You-know Newtonbrook is said a lot of times to be let's say more Russian but I was in the extended-french-program and there we were getting a lot of um, it was just a huge mix there. Um, however if you go to something- some of the clubs that are more like a softball or Scouts I found that it was a lot more middle-class-white.
Late-entry French immersion programs beginning around Grade 7 or 8 (as opposed to early immersion programs, which may begin as early as kindergarten).
Interviewer: She goes to Newtonbrook? Speaker: Yeah. She's in extended-French as-well. So yeah- Interviewer: Why was it important- I guess for your parents- that you learn French? Speaker: No, not at all actually um, it was more when I went to Newtonbrook I do pretty well in school and I was looking at the regular program and I thought Id be kind-of bored. And so I sat down and my mom had sat down and this other thing about extended-French. And so I sat down with this and I was like, "Oh, this is kind-of interesting."
Late-entry French immersion programs beginning around Grade 7 or 8 (as opposed to early immersion programs, which may begin as early as kindergarten).
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Interviewer: How long have you been taking French? Speaker: Um I started extended French in grade seven and I did extended French in high-school as well so I took nine courses in French. I took um geography, history, civics, careers, computers all in French, and, including my French courses.
Late-entry French immersion programs beginning around Grade 7 or 8 (as opposed to early immersion programs, which may begin as early as kindergarten).
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... after that I went to King-Edward-Public-School which is right at Bathurst and College. Um, so I went there for grade-seven and eight and I-think that was probably not a very good experience overall. Like it was okay like- a-- education-wise. Like I went there for extended-French and-all-that and I met some good friends there but I-mean, lots of like sort-of social conflicts started to happen ...
Late-entry French immersion programs beginning around Grade 7 or 8 (as opposed to early immersion programs, which may begin as early as kindergarten).
So I was in grade-eleven and um- wait, September two-thousand-and-one, yeah, starting grade-eleven. So it was this class where, like I said before how I was in extended French. Basically what they did in grade-eleven and grade-twelve was that for some reason, they thought it would be a good idea to like combine extended and immersion French kids together.
Late-entry French immersion programs beginning around Grade 7 or 8 (as opposed to early immersion programs, which may begin as early as kindergarten).
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Speaker: ... one of them is at ah Fricker for grade-seven and eight and our youngest one is at E-T-Carmichael but he actually will go to Fricker next year for the extended-French program. So, that will be- that will be a big change for him.
Late-entry French immersion programs beginning around Grade 7 or 8 (as opposed to early immersion programs, which may begin as early as kindergarten).
Interviewer: And- sorry, so which one go-- which one's going int--to the French program? Speaker: Ah, the youngest one. So they have a l-- sor-- it's- they call it an extended-French program. It's sort-of the late immersion program, so they go for grade-five, six, seven, and eight and they do close to sixty-percent of their day in French for grade-five and six and then it's about a fifty-fifty split for seven and eight. And he can still take some extended French courses at Widdifield or he can choose to go to Chippewa for full immersion.
Late-entry French immersion programs beginning around Grade 7 or 8 (as opposed to early immersion programs, which may begin as early as kindergarten).