Year 5 French Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 5 Languages by the end of the year. Teachers can use it to guide assessment design, collect evidence of learning, and ensure planning stays aligned with the Australian Curriculum v9.
What Students Should Know
By the end of Year 6, students initiate and use strategies to maintain interactions in French language that are related to their immediate environment. They use appropriate sound combinations, intonation and rhythm in spoken texts. They collaborate in spoken and written activities that involve the language of planning and problem-solving to share information, ideas and preferences. They use strategies to locate and interpret information and ideas in texts, and demonstrate understanding by responding in French or English, adjusting their response to context, purpose and audience. They create texts, selecting and using a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures to suit context. They sequence information and ideas, and use conventions appropriate to text type.
Students apply rules for pronunciation and intonation, spelling and punctuation, and modelled structures, when creating and responding in French. They compare language structures and features in French and English, using some metalanguage. They show understanding of how some language reflects cultural practices and consider how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.
Content Descriptors by Strand
This standard is supported by 9 Content Descriptors:
Communicating meaning in French
Interacting in French
AC9LF6C01 initiate and sustain modelled exchanges in familiar contexts related to students’ personal world and school environment AC9LF6C02 participate in activities that involve planning and negotiating with others, using language that expresses information, preferences and ideasMediating meaning in and between languages
AC9LF6C03 locate and process information and ideas in a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, and respond in different ways to suit purpose AC9LF6C04 apply strategies to interpret and convey meaning in French language in familiar non-verbal, spoken and written cultural contextsCreating text in French
AC9LF6C05 create and present a range of informative and imaginative spoken, written and multimodal texts using a variety of modelled sentence structures to sequence information and ideas, and conventions appropriate to text typeUnderstanding language and culture
Understanding systems of language
AC9LF6U01 apply knowledge of combinations of sounds, syllables, pronunciation and intonation patterns to develop fluency and rhythm to known words and phrases AC9LF6U02 use knowledge of modelled grammatical structures and formulaic expressions to compose and respond to texts using appropriate punctuation and textual conventions AC9LF6U03 compare some French language structures and features with those of English, using some familiar metalanguageUnderstanding the interrelationship of language and culture
AC9LF6U04 recognise that language reflects cultural practices, values and identity, and that this impacts on non-verbal and verbal communicationAt a Glance
| Strand | Substrand | CDs | Elaborations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communicating meaning in French | Interacting in French | 2 | 16 |
| Communicating meaning in French | Mediating meaning in and between languages | 2 | 16 |
| Communicating meaning in French | Creating text in French | 1 | 10 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language | 3 | 22 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture | 1 | 6 |
| Total | 9 | 70 | |