AC9LF8C05 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.

create and present spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts for specific purposes, selecting vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures, features and conventions appropriate to text type and context

Elaborations

• 1

  creating a text such as a multimodal presentation or video to capture aspects of their personal and social worlds, for example, a day in our life in school, les copains, mon quartier, le weekend

• 2

  creating tourist brochures for young Australian travellers to French-speaking countries such as Visitez le Vanuatu! Bienvenue au Canada/en Belgique, and supplying key words, phrases and cultural protocols to assist travellers Encore une fois, s’il vous plaȋt; je vais prendre ceci, ça coûte combien? Où sont les toilettes? Je vous remercie, Madame, Je vous en prie, Madame

• 3

  taking expressions from French stories such as Tintin et l’étoile mysterieuse: allons-y! Ah non, c’est impossible! Personne? Ah magnifique! and adapting to their own text to create suspense or excitement

• 4 creating a print or digital poster in French to promote travel to a significant cultural location on a First Nations Country/Place, including what to see and do
• 5 creating and performing texts that reflect French attitudes, for example, the French attitude to eating on time, using aspects of drama such as improvisation, gesture, movement, and props to enhance spoken performances and storytelling
• 6 creating glossaries for French-speaking friends, to accompany Australian images or texts, explaining outback lifestyle, inner city markets, and abbreviations such as ‘barbie’, ‘brekkie’, ‘betta’
• 7

  creating menus or programs for French-themed events, including footnotes in English to explain key terms or items such as le plat du jour, service compris, l’entracte, la mise en scène

• 8 using voice recording and digital presentation software to create, perform or record imaginative texts using voice, for example, a short play
• 9 composing text for English captions in a multimodal presentation, documentary or short film describing places to visit (tourist attractions, etc.) in France or a French-speaking country, and aspects of culture, traditions or customs while showcasing the diversity of French-speaking communities
• 10 contributing to a real or imagined blog of learners of French in English-speaking communities around the world, making choices about when to use French or English depending on the context topic and nature of the interaction
• 11

  adapting information focusing on specific vocabulary such as laïcité, Ramadan, Yom Kippour, halal to create a text that reflects the diversity of beliefs and behaviours in contemporary French-speaking societies

Related Achievement Standards