AC9LF8C03 Year 7 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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.

interpret information, ideas and opinions in a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• 1

  using a range of sources to access and collate information on youth-related issues, such as la musique, la télévision, les sports, l'environnement, and classifying findings

• 2

  comparing information about French music, movies and sporting events and sharing results, for example, La chanson numéro 1 en France est ... mais en Australie, c'est ...

• 3

  responding in French to different expressions of humour (le mime, les blagues, les jeux de mots, les devinettes, etc.), that include diverse perspectives on social issues and comparing these with Australian expressions of humour

• 4 listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories and responding to them in spoken or written French
• 5 collecting memes and cartoons from social media that illustrate cultural elements of humour that can lead to misunderstandings, and providing an explanation using modelled expressions
• 6

  listening to, or viewing informative texts such as television news reports or feature articles, and noting key words, specialised terms or points of information to reuse in their own newsflash or photo story/roman-photo, for example, noting keywords en direct, les dernières nouvelles, l’information continue, la météo

• 7

  using the internet responsibly to research, or engaging with youth in France or a French-speaking community around the world via digital tools, to discover young people’s lifestyles across French-speaking cultures and contexts, comparing information from different cultural contexts to identify the influence of factors such as geography, climate, and social and community environment, les colonies de vacances, les boulots, les sports aquatiques, les jeux vidéos

• 8 gathering information from French online sources to inform understanding of similarities and differences of teen lifestyles in French-speaking countries and presenting findings
• 9 listening to, or viewing texts, such as a songs, raps, comics, cartoons, films and video clips, and responding to questions about characters, events and ideas

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