AC9LF4U03 Years 3 to 4 Languages

Content descriptor recognise familiar French language features and compare with those of English, in known contexts

Elaborations

• • Elaboration identifying and comparing key words in French and English versions of favourite stories, for example, comparing La chenille qui fait des trous and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, or La vieille dame qui avala une mouche and The Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly, and considering the rhythms and vocal effects in the 2 versions
• • Elaboration understanding that French has close connections to other languages which have shared histories and many similar words such as the English, French, Italian and Spanish word for ‘the bank’, la banque, la banca, el banco, and the word for ‘art’, l’art, l’arte, el arte
• • Elaboration discovering French words used in English (le restaurant, le café, le chauffeur, le ballet, le croissant, etc.) and English words used by French speakers (le coach, le blog, Internet, le football, le burger, le sandwich, le denim, etc.) and comparing how they are pronounced by French and English speakers
• • Elaboration noticing and applying features of familiar types of texts (greetings, requests, weather reports, postcards, recipes, etc.), and recognising how different textual elements combine to make meaning, for example, the images, font and script of a webpage; the layout, title and illustrations in a picture book; the highlighting of names, dates and times on an invitation, and using templates and/or the appropriate scaffold
• • Elaboration recognising features of a simple spoken or written text in French, such as a verbal greeting or a written message, for example, noting terms of address and ways of signing off, and making comparisons with similar texts in English
• • Elaboration finding examples of shortened noun forms in colloquial French (le resto, le frigo, le foot, le prof, etc.), comparing with the use of abbreviations in Australian English (brekkie, arvo, etc.), and considering when or how they are used