AC9LF8EC04 Years 7 to 8 Languages

Content descriptor locate and process information and ideas in familiar spoken, written and multimodal texts, responding in ways appropriate to cultural context, purpose and audience

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• • Elaboration collecting vocabulary and expressions from a range of informative texts such as posters, websites, brochures or menus for use in their own short reports on topic such as les voyages, manger sain, les médias
• • Elaboration listening for key points of information in short, spoken texts such as phone messages or announcements, and representing the information in note form to communicate to others
• • Elaboration gathering information about places, people or events in French-speaking communities’ contexts and cultures, and using it to build timelines, itineraries or profiles
• • Elaboration listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories and responding to them in spoken or written French
• • Elaboration obtaining, classifying and summarising data collected from class surveys or web searches on topics such as favourite books, music, apps, films or social media
• • Elaboration explaining and sequencing actions or events from texts such as magazine articles or sports reports
• • Elaboration understanding text from a source and conveying the information in a different format to a different audience, for example, reading a menu and discussing the order with the waiter to exclude some ingredients; seeing a poster for a gym opening and writing an email to a friend to try it out; looking at a cinema program and negotiating when to go and what to see with siblings

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• • Elaboration listening to, or viewing texts such as songs, raps or film and video clips, and noticing ideas and comparing aspects that may be similar or different across cultures
• • Elaboration identifying national symbols and creating a gift pack of symbols to introduce Australian students to French culture and vice versa, and explaining the reasons for their choices