AC9LF10EU02 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.

select and use structures and features of the French grammatical and writing systems to enhance meaning and create spoken, written and multimodal texts

Elaborations

• 1

  understanding and using additional negative forms such as ne … plus, ne … rien, ne … jamais, ne … que, ne …personne

• 2

  understanding comparative and superlative forms of adverbs and adjectives such as vite, plus vite, le plus vite; moins jolie, la moins jolie; bon, meilleur, le meilleur

• 3

  extending knowledge of passé composé, understanding that verbs conjugated with être require agreement of the past participle with the subject, for example, elles sont parties hier soir, and that verbs conjugated with avoir require agreement between the past participle and preceding direct object, for example, les fleurs que tu as achetées sont si belles.

• 4

  using imparfait, and understanding how to distinguish between a completed and a continuing action in the past, for example, nous étions déjà au lit quand il est arrivé.

• 5

  understanding the use of relative pronouns (qui, que), emphatic pronouns (moi, elle, eux), direct and indirect object pronouns (le, la, lui, nous, vous, les, leur) and exposure to ‘y’, ‘en’

• 6

  understanding the form and function of pronominal verbs (se laver, se lever, se présenter), including the use of être and agreements in passé composé

• 7

  understanding impersonal expressions such as il faut, on peut, on doit …

• 8

  gaining awareness of simple and compound tenses, using le passé composé to recount events that occurred in the past and le futur proche to describe immediate future events, for example, il a regardé la télé; il va regarder la télé.

• 9

  recognising the subjunctive/subjonctif verb forms in set, modelled phrases, for example, il faut que tu partes, il faut que je finisse mes devoirs.

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