AC9LF2C02 Year 1 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 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.

participate in a range of guided, play-based language activities using formulaic expressions, visual and spoken cues

Elaborations

• 1 reciting an expanded range of action songs and raps with greater independence
• 2

  using classroom labels or word walls to participate in play-based experiences, for example, using words such as la porte, la fenêtre, le jardin to make a house with blocks or using pretend food items to make la cantine

• 3

  playing hide and seek with classroom objects, for example, Où est le crayon? Sous la table ... Dans le tiroir ...

• 4

  participating in tasks involving exchanging, sorting and classifying objects and attributes such as shapes, colours and numbers, using simple question forms and affirmative and negative responses, for example, Tu as un sept? Oui, voilà! Et toi, tu as le jaune? Non, j’ai le vert.

• 5

  taking turns in games and action songs that involve choice and negotiation, for example, choosing or exchanging matching cards or playing memory games such as Au marché - Donne-moi deux pommes, s’il te plaȋt; Donne-moi deux pommes et trois carottes; Voilà/voici … merci; C’est ton tour.

• 6

  adapting familiar outdoor games such as Simon Says, Fruit Salad, What's the Time Mr Wolf, Hopscotch into French, for example, Jacques a dit.

• 7

  taking turns to be a fitness instructor for classroom body breaks, using the imperative to give instructions, for example, sautez, marchez, tournez, à gauche, à droite

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