AC9LF10C03 Year 9 Languages

AC9LF10C03 – Year 9 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in French

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 Languages provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Content Descriptor

evaluate and synthesise information, ideas and perspectives in a broad range of spoken, written and multimodal texts and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• summarising information from spoken, written or visual texts that reflect different aspects of culture related to topics such as entertainment, special occasions, health and lifestyle or fashion
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comparing lyrics, themes and styles of popular French and English language songs, and tracking similarities and differences in ideas, referring to Eurovision, Victoires de la Musique/ARIA
• listening to, reading, viewing extracts from expressive contemporary texts (tales, poems, songs, dance, street art, performances, including influences from minority groups and subcultures, etc.) and identifying and comparing elements of cultural traditions in Australia and the French-speaking world
• listening to or reading a First Nations Australian’s stories and discussing their opinions and ideas, and, in French, presenting their personal profile to the class
• obtaining information from a range of texts, including television weather reports, interviews and digital video clips and summarising main points and presenting key information in their own words
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exploring how texts achieve different effects such as moving from generic terms les fleurs, to specific terms les violettes, les jonquilles for desired effect
• summarising the key points from a range of texts such as media texts and interviews

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• identifying underlying values, cultural references of different texts such as an advertisement or article, and evaluating the effect on audience
• evaluating language techniques (humour, imagery, hyperbole, etc.) used in contemporary drama, television programs, film and poetry

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANFREF10Y910

Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students contribute to and extend interactions in French language in increasingly unfamiliar contexts related to a wide range of interests and issues. They interpret texts by evaluating and synthesising information, ideas and perspectives. They show understanding of how features of language can be used to influence audience response. They create texts, selecting and manipulating language for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. They apply and use complex sentences and structures to create and respond to spoken and written texts. They use a variety of tenses to sequence events and use language devices to enhance meaning and cohesion.Students incorporate the features and conventions of spoken French to extend fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the conventions of spoken and written texts and the connections between them. They apply knowledge of language structures and features to make and predict meaning. They support analysis of French texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own cultural perspectives and identity, and draw on their experience of learning French, to evaluate how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.