AC9LF8U01 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.

apply knowledge of conventions of spoken French to enhance fluency, and to respond to and create texts in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

• 1

  understanding the different levels of formality between spoken and written language on/nous, je peux pas/je ne peux pas, 'eh ben'/eh bien, ouais/oui, qu'est-ce que je vais me mettre sur le dos?/comment vais-je m'habiller?

• 2

  recognising the form of commonly used morphemes, suffixes and prefixes la camionette, désordre, désagréable, irrégulier, inacceptable, la danseuse to assist pronunciation

• 3

  collecting groups of words that share a common stem, for example, la bouche, la bouchée; le jardin, jardiner, le jardinage to enhance vocabulary knowledge when interacting in spoken exchanges

• 4

  recognising the impact of non-verbal elements of French expression such as hand gestures for c’est nul, ça suffit! Quoi encore? to replace words

• 5

  using sounds such as Oh là là! Aïe! T’as fait quoi? and facial expressions to reinforce spoken language

• 6

  distinguishing vowel sounds, for example, recognising distinctions between nasal sounds such as cinq, sympa, manger, entre!, dont, des bonbons

• 7

  applying phonic knowledge and grammatical knowledge to spelling and writing unfamiliar words, for example, letter combinations such as -eau, -eur or -ette, and words involving 2 or more distinct vowel sounds such as le bateau, l’aspirateur, la baguette

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