AC9LF8EC06 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 spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts using appropriate vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures, and some textual conventions

Elaborations

• 1 using key words or expressions to compose a description of characters or events in different types of imaginative texts
• 2 creating a bilingual menu, sign or brochure for the school community, for example, the canteen menu, signs for school buildings, a brochure about school subjects
• 3 using modelled language to create simple texts about familiar topics
• 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

  sharing with a French-speaking audience, aspects of their personal and social worlds, for example, ‘A day in our life in middle school’; les copains; mon quartier; le weekend

• 6

  creating resources (posters, pamphlets, websites, journals, etc.) to present topics related to lifestyles, events or causes such as le Jour de la Terre, le Clean-Up Day

• 7 writing an email to introduce yourself to a real or imagined host family in a French-speaking country, providing personal information, likes and interests
• 8 creating a multimodal text to share with a French-speaking audience, for example, a video or digital presentation to capture and describe aspects of their personal and social worlds
• 9 using formulaic expressions to create bilingual texts (rhymes, stories, songs, etc.) for specific audiences such as younger learners or invitations to a class event, posters or library displays for the school or local community, considering how to represent meaning for different audiences
• 10 corresponding with another school or contact group of English learners in a French-speaking community (respecting privacy guidelines), making choices about when to use French or English depending on the context, topic and nature of the interaction

Related Achievement Standards