AC9LF10U03 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.

reflect on and evaluate French texts, using metalanguage to analyse language structures and features

Elaborations

• 1 explaining grammatical forms (present perfect, conditional tense, relative and emphatic pronouns, impersonal expressions), using metalanguage
• 2

  describing and explaining grammatical concepts using metalanguage, for example, futur simple and futur proche, understanding when to use le passé composé and l’imparfait, comparing with equivalent English terms

• 3

  explaining the meaning of nature and content (le fond et la forme) of texts from different sources such as travel brochure, text about the venues combined with reviews by visitors

• 4 discussing the use of personal pronouns, imperative/interrogative verb moods and emotive language in advertisements, identifying how grammatical choices, words and images combine in a text to achieve particular intentions and effects
• 5

  interpreting, explaining and using textual conventions popular with young French speakers, for example, the use of contractions, abbreviations and acronyms in text messaging, for example, ‘bjr’ for bonjour, ‘A+’ for à plus, ‘biz’ for bisous; the use of verlan, for example, la teuf, la meuf, ouf and slang, for example, la bagnole, la flotte, les flics

• 6 using metalanguage to compare French and English versions of a text with easily recognisable language features, for example, a love song, recipe or horoscope, recognising differences or similarities in imagery or focus that might be culturally significant
• 7

  talking about how imaginative texts use structure, language and mood to build action, develop character and position the reader, using modelled descriptive and analytic language, for example, Les adjectifs et les adverbes sont très évocateurs; Il y a un rythme qui crée une atmosphère triste; La voix du narrateur calme le lecteur.

• 8

  analysing how texts (advertisements, letters to the editor, dating apps, les petites annonces, etc.) use persuasive language techniques such as personal pronouns, emotive language, alliteration, the rule of 3, rhetorical questions, and images to achieve their purpose and suit the context

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