AC9LF4C03 Year 3 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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.

locate and respond to key information related to familiar content obtained from spoken, written and multimodal texts

Elaborations

• 1 responding to a story, song, cartoon, comic or simple narrative by retelling, re-enacting the main events or taking on the role of a character or matching pictures and descriptive statements
• 2 listening to short spoken texts with some unfamiliar language and identifying points of information, for example, discovering the name and number on a recorded phone message, the age of a child being interviewed or identifying some items on a recorded shopping list or information in a weather report from a French-speaking location
• 3 responding to simple notes, invitations, birthday cards, etc. in print or digital form
• 4 learning that First Nations Australian languages change according to connections and relationships between people, and giving examples of how this occurs in French
• 5

  locating information about activities in a French school context such as l’emploi du temps, la lecture, l’orthographe, le vocabulaire, les mathématiques and comparing with their own daily schedule

• 6

  reading simple narratives and responding to images that evoke positive or negative emotions, such as affection, sadness or anger, and making connections with their own experiences by using stem statements such as Je suis fou/folle quand …; Je suis content(e) si …; J’ai peur de …

• 7

  collecting and using favourite exclamations, words or expressions from texts such as Terrrrible! Ça y est! Pas vrai! Quoi de neuf?

• 8

  collecting information from print or digital sources about topics of interest such as favourite animal species, for example, les animaux domestiques/sauvages, and creating a display with names and appropriate adjectives

• 9 viewing an imaginative text, listening for key words and phrases, responding to questions about characters and events
• 10 discovering and exploring print or digital maps of Australia to identify historical names or places with a French connection, for example, Recherche Bay in Tasmania; Esperance in Western Australia; La Perouse in Sydney

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