AC9LF8EC04 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1

  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

• 2 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
• 3 gathering information about places, people or events in French-speaking communities’ contexts and cultures, and using it to build timelines, itineraries or profiles
• 4 listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories and responding to them in spoken or written French
• 5 obtaining, classifying and summarising data collected from class surveys or web searches on topics such as favourite books, music, apps, films or social media
• 6 explaining and sequencing actions or events from texts such as magazine articles or sports reports
• 7 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
• 8 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
• 9 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

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