AC9LF4U02 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.

recognise French language conventions, grammatical structures and basic syntax in familiar texts and contexts

Elaborations

• 1

  using an increasing range of adjectives, including bizarre, magnifique, formidable, and additional gender forms and agreements such as blanc/blanche, gros/grosse, le chat blanc, la souris blanche

• 2

  using some adverbs to elaborate on simple statements, for example, elle mange lentement, je chante doucement, il parle très vite

• 3

  using prepositions such as à gauche, à droite, à côté de to indicate direction or location

• 4

  strengthening vocabulary knowledge by making connections with known words such as le marché, le supermarché, le marchand

• 5 recognising word patterns and building word clusters such as number knowledge from 60–100 and ordinal numbers
• 6

  recognising and beginning to use common verb conjugations such as regular ‘-er’ verbs

• 7

  using modelled common irregular verbs such as être, avoir, aller, faire: Je suis intelligent(e); Tu as quel âge? Comment allez-vous? Je fais le petit déjeuner. Il va à la plage.

• 8

  recognising modelled ‘-ir’ verb phrases such as J'ai fini! Je n'ai pas fini! Avez-vous fini?

• 9

  developing an awareness of verb tenses, and some direct object pronouns such as Je l'aime with reflexive verbs, with modelled support such as Je me lève. Je me brosse les dents.

• 10

  expressing negation in simple sentence structures and colloquial expressions such as Je ne sais pas; Elle ne mange pas; Tu ne viens pas? Pas du tout!

• 11

  recognising the difference between definite and indefinite articles, and how to refer to a specific or unspecific person, place or object such as Tu manges la pomme, j’achète un livre, une vache énorme, le climat français

• 12

  observing the relationship between subject pronouns and verb endings using je/tu/il/elle with present tense of verbs associated with familiar actions and environments, for example, understanding the relationship in il chante bien, je suis fatigué, tu aimes le yaourt, elle est en classe.

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