AC9LF2U02 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1

  becoming familiar with the French alphabet, noticing similarities to and differences from English, for example, double-v, i-grec

• 2 recognising that French uses the Roman alphabet like English, but unlike English, French has accent marks
• 3

  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

• 4 recognising familiar words and phrases in French texts that look, sound and have the same meaning in French as in English
• 5

  exploring the similarity to English of the French subject+verb+object structure such as Je mange la pomme; Tu as le cahier.

• 6 noticing that there are different types of texts such as picture books, nursery rhymes, tongue twisters, lists, signs, etc.
• 7

  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.

• 8

  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

• 9

  developing the use of appropriate pronouns to identify people, for example, Je m’appelle Adam, et toi, tu t’appelles comment? Comment allez-vous?

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