AC9LF8EC06 Year 7 Languages

AC9LF8EC06 – Year 7 Languages: Creating text in French

Strand

Communicating meaning in French

Substrand

Creating text in French

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

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

Elaborations

• using key words or expressions to compose a description of characters or events in different types of imaginative texts
• 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
• using modelled language to create simple texts about familiar topics
• 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
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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
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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
• writing an email to introduce yourself to a real or imagined host family in a French-speaking country, providing personal information, likes and interests

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• 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
• 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
• 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

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.