AC9LF10EC01 Year 9 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.

initiate and sustain interactions in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts to exchange ideas, experiences and opinions about their own and others’ personal world

Elaborations

• 1

  initiating and sustaining conversation through active listening strategies, for example, turn-taking cues and non-verbal and verbal responses ah bon? pas vrai! et si on …? and using appropriate protocols such as forms of politeness and respect, for example, Enchanté, je vous en prie, pourriez-vous m’excuser. Je suis ravi (e) de vous rencontrer.

• 2

  contributing to discussions with young people in French-speaking contexts, comparing aspects of school and home life such as le stress, le sport, l’étude des langues

• 3

  explaining or justifying a position in relation to personal and social issues such as les études, la santé, l’avenir, les passe-temps

• 4

  building topic-specific vocabulary and rhetorical strategies such as emphasis and repetition, for example, Au contraire! à mon avis …, je ne suis pas d’accord, après tout …, il faut le dire …, encore une fois …

• 5

  using descriptive and expressive language to exchange views on global issues such as diversity, le changement climatique, les médias sociaux, l’avenir des jeunes, la pollution

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