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AC9LF6C03 Years 5 to 6 Languages

AC9LF6C03 | Years 5 to 6 French: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor locate and process information and ideas in a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, and respond in different ways to suit purpose

Foundation to Year 10 sequence

Strand
Communicating meaning in French
Substrand
Mediating meaning in and between languages

This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 5 to 6 French · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration accessing information about important French celebrations and festivities and presenting a print or multimodal report
  • • Elaboration engaging with spoken and written texts concerning young people in France or French-speaking communities around the world, about their school routine, leisure time and lifestyle, and presenting the findings in a multimodal presentation
  • • Elaboration identifying the purpose, context and intended audience of a range of familiar texts (phone messages, sports reports, takeaway food orders, etc.) recognising differences between spoken and written texts, and noting that some types of text such as emails or text messages combine elements of each
  • • Elaboration listening to, or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories and responding to them using words, formulaic expressions and modelled sentences in French
  • • Elaboration recognising and describing key features of familiar texts such as advertisements, reports or letters from sources such as Astrapi, Le Petit Quotidien and Images Doc, and comparing with similar texts from Australian sources
  • • Elaboration extracting points of information from sources such as websites, books and magazines, and providing a summary of the key messages of the texts
  • • Elaboration drawing from a range of informative texts (videos, books, magazines, advertisements, websites, etc.) to collect and compare information on topics (family life, housing, schooling, etc.) in different cultural contexts such as la campagne, les villes, les appartements, en francophonie
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  • • Elaboration using performative, narrative or graphic organisers to create a new character based on one or more characters in an imaginative text
  • • Elaboration watching different types of imaginative texts (puppet shows, stories, films, etc.) and then interviewing classmates about the characters, events, sets and costumes using modelled language to express ideas and reactions such as Il est comment? Il est fou! Pourquoi elle porte un panier? Parce que sa mamie est malade.
  • • Elaboration conducting surveys with peers and family members to report on social behaviours and preferred modes of communication (le téléphone, le courriel, les conversations face à face, les textos, etc.)

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