AC9LF10U04
Years 9 to 10
Languages
AC9LF10U04 | Years 9 to 10 French: Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor reflect on and evaluate how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), beliefs, attitudes and values and how these affect ways of communicating
Foundation to Year 10 sequence
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 9 to 10 French · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration interpreting gestures used by French speakers to signal meanings Parfait! C’est fini comparing with gestures used in Australian English and other known languages, and incorporating some of them into their own language use
- • Elaboration reflecting on the impact of regional and cultural diversity on French-speaking communities and how this is évident in expressions such as la France gastronomique: la choucroute d’Alsace, la quiche Lorraine, le bœuf bourguignon, la tapenade Provençale; la Polynésie: les cinq archipels, les ȋles et les atolls
- • Elaboration shifting from the use of vous to tu to signal a closer relationship and using first name
- • Elaboration reflecting on and explaining the protocols required to authentically co-create an Acknowledgement of Country/Place with a First Nations Australian, to present in French for a group of French-speaking visitors at a school assembly
- • Elaboration explaining to non-French speakers the expressions and cultural allusions encountered in French texts associated with historical, religious or civic events or traditions such as la Marianne, le tricolore, la Toussaint, le 1er mai
- • Elaboration understanding the power of language to influence people’s actions and beliefs, for example, analysing language used in community appeals in response to natural disasters
- • Elaboration understanding how language variation can reflect cultural and social identity, inclusion or exclusion, for example, inclusive language of political speeches, Nous les pères et les mères des futurs citoyens de notre belle France …
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- • Elaboration reflecting on how learning French has given them insight into the close connection between language and culture and evaluating how their own assumptions have changed
- • Elaboration exploring intercultural communication, considering how their own cultural ways of thinking and behaving affect attitudes and influence other people’s responses or interpretations and how they change over time
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Read the full Years 9 to 10 French · Foundation to Year 10 sequence achievement standard