AC9LF8EC04 Year 7 Languages

AC9LF8EC04 – Year 7 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in French

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between 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.

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

Elaborations

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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
• 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
• gathering information about places, people or events in French-speaking communities’ contexts and cultures, and using it to build timelines, itineraries or profiles
• listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories and responding to them in spoken or written French
• obtaining, classifying and summarising data collected from class surveys or web searches on topics such as favourite books, music, apps, films or social media
• explaining and sequencing actions or events from texts such as magazine articles or sports reports
• 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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• 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
• 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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANFRE7_10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students use French language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions, and recognise familiar gestures, questions and instructions in exchanges. They recognise relationships between spoken and written forms. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in French or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language, and modelled sentence and grammatical structures to create texts, and demonstrate understanding of how some language reflects cultural practices.Students approximate French sound patterns, intonation and rhythms, and demonstrate understanding that French has conventions and rules for non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They comment on aspects of French and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that the French language is connected with culture and identity, and that this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.