AC9LF4C04 Year 3 Languages

AC9LF4C04 – Year 3 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in French

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between 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.

Content Descriptor

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

Elaborations

• learning to use a dictionary to find unknown words in texts to assist comprehension
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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
• 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
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collecting and using French words and expressions that do not translate easily into English such as Bon appétit, bon voyage, voilà! chic!
• 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
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refusing an invitation politely, without offending, using formulaic and modelled expressions, for example, Je voudrais bien mais …, désolé(e), malheureusement …

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 3 ASLANFREF10Y34

Year 3 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 4, students use French language to initiate structured interactions to share information related to the classroom and their personal world. They use modelled language to participate in spoken and written activities that involve planning. They locate and respond to key items of information in texts using strategies to help interpret and convey meaning in familiar contexts. They use modelled language and basic syntax to create texts.Students imitate sound combinations and rhythms of French language. They demonstrate understanding that French has non-verbal, spoken and written language conventions and rules to create and make meaning. They recognise that some terms have cultural meanings. They identify patterns in French and make comparisons between French and English. They understand that the French language is connected with culture, and identify how this is reflected in their own language(s) and culture(s).