AC9LF2U02 Years 1 to 2 Languages

Content descriptor recognise that the Roman alphabet is used to construct meaning in texts in French

Elaborations

• • Elaboration becoming familiar with the French alphabet, noticing similarities to and differences from English, for example, double-v, i-grec
• • Elaboration recognising that French uses the Roman alphabet like English, but unlike English, French has accent marks
• • Elaboration noticing that the use of accent marks can change the sound of letters, for example, noticing that a cedilla makes a ‘c’ sound like an ‘s’ - ç, and the use of acute and grave accents
• • Elaboration recognising familiar words and phrases in French texts that look, sound and have the same meaning in French as in English
• • Elaboration exploring the similarity to English of the French subject+verb+object structure such as Je mange la pomme; Tu as le cahier.
• • Elaboration noticing that there are different types of texts such as picture books, nursery rhymes, tongue twisters, lists, signs, etc.
• • Elaboration recognising that French uses lower case for days of the week and months of the year and the date, for example, dimanche, juillet, Aujourd’hui c’est le lundi 2 janvier.

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• • Elaboration noticing that French uses definite and indefinite articles in singular or plural forms such as une fille, le concert, les croissants, including the l’ form for nouns beginning with a vowel or the letter ‘h’ such as l’hiver, l’école; and un chapeau, une chaise, des amis
• • Elaboration developing the use of appropriate pronouns to identify people, for example, Je m’appelle Adam, et toi, tu t’appelles comment? Comment allez-vous?