AC9LF4C04 Years 3 to 4 Languages

Content descriptor develop strategies to comprehend and adjust French language in familiar contexts to convey cultural meaning

Elaborations

• • Elaboration learning to use a dictionary to find unknown words in texts to assist comprehension
• • Elaboration using multimodal resources to build vocabulary to describe actions or feelings by accessing and presenting information of interest such as les fêtes d’anniversaires, les vacances, les copains
• • Elaboration responding to factual and imaginative picture and digital books, short-scripted plays or animations that use familiar French words by creating a class display of the key information and providing a glossary of new words and expressions
• • Elaboration collecting and using French words and expressions that do not translate easily into English such as Bon appétit, bon voyage, voilà! chic!
• • Elaboration engaging with a familiar story and writing or acting out a plausible different ending, using new words, expressions and gestures to convey key messages of the story
• • Elaboration refusing an invitation politely, without offending, using formulaic and modelled expressions, for example, Je voudrais bien mais …, désolé(e), malheureusement …