French Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Mon, 27 Feb 2023 20:34:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg French Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Former Astronaut To Be Canada’s Next Governor General https://teachingkidsnews.com/2017/09/05/former-astronaut-canadas-next-governor-general/ Tue, 05 Sep 2017 10:12:58 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=16316 Julie Payette will be Canada's next Governor-General, replacing David Johnston. She will start her new job on October 2.
Payette, 53, is a former astronaut, who spent more than 25 days in space.
She speaks six languages.

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]]> More Canadian Kids Taking French Immersion https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/01/29/1-more-canadian-kids-taking-french-immersion/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/01/29/1-more-canadian-kids-taking-french-immersion/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:39:29 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=8945 More Canadian students are signing up for French immersion, according to a report by Statistics Canada.

Even though the number of students in Canada is going down, the number of students taking French immersion has gone up by 12 per cent in the last five years. That information is based on the 2011 census.

The trend is particularly strong out west. Over the past 12 years, the number of students in British Columbia and Alberta taking French immersion has risen steadily. The number in Saskatchewan and Ontario are also climbing.

French immersion is when a student whose first language is not French, studies in French.

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