AC9LF6C05 Year 5 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

create and present a range of informative and imaginative spoken, written and multimodal texts using a variety of modelled sentence structures to sequence information and ideas, and conventions appropriate to text type

Elaborations

• 1

  using digital tools (word processing software, etc.) to create information for a known contact group of French-speaking students, curating information about their own interests and experiences (les vacances, les amis, les sports, les médias, etc.) and using resources such as audio, video or graphics to highlight elements which may be unfamiliar to French students

• 2 creating an interactive display or performance as advocacy for the school language program, for example, informing younger children of the benefits of learning French, or creating puppet plays and skits of familiar French stories and rhymes
• 3

  introducing, adapting and illustrating new elements or alternative versions of familiar stories, traditional tales and songs such as Nicolas in Le Petit Nicolas or a different ending to Les Trois Petits Cochons

• 4 creating a class print or digital poster, locating and describing, in French, a specific First Nations Country/Place location in a local or regional context, or elsewhere in Australia
• 5

  writing the script for a fashion show to share with others, Je vous présente Émilie. Elle porte une belle jupe bleue. Très chic, alors!

• 6

  using photo stills from a football match or le Tour de France to write and create some recorded commentary about the action taking place such as Il donne un coup de pied au ballon. Aïe! Il tombe! Ça fait mal!

• 7

  creating a script of directions for an interactive GPS experience such as TomTom or Siri, for example, Siri, où est la gendarmerie? Siri, je veux aller au cinema. Siri, est-ce qu'il y a une toilette près d'ici? À cent metres tournez à droit.

• 8

  composing the spoken, written or multimodal text for a vitual tour of the ideal French village using words such as devant, à côté de, à 500 mètres, trois étages

• 9

  compiling lists of informal French and English expressions for everyday interactions with friends and family such as À tout à l’heure (See you later); Génial (Cool); Salut, ça va! (Good day!); Amuse-toi bien (Have fun); Bisous (Kiss or love at the end of an informal letter)

• 10

  creating texts which reflect the use of colloquial or abbreviated language by young people in informal, written and technologically mediated contexts (G for j’ai, pa for pas, etc.) in text messages; using borrowed words from other languages (ciao, cool, super; and hybrid terms allez-bye!) or verb contractions in informal spoken language (chais pas for je ne sais pas, etc.)

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