AC9LF8U02 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 understanding of grammatical structures and expressions to compose and respond to texts

Elaborations

• 1

  extending knowledge of negative constructions such as ne … plus, ne … rien, ne … jamais, ne … que

• 2

  understanding and using infinitive verb forms and phrasal verbs such as avoir besoin de faire quelque chose, commencer à faire …

• 3

  using le passé composé and le futur proche

• 4

  consolidating conjugation skills of regular verbs in le présent (present tense) and le passé composé (past tense), and of high-frequency irregular verbs such as avoir, être, aller, faire, venir, pouvoir, vouloir, mettre, devoir

• 5

  recognising and using avoir expressions such as avoir soif, avoir sommeil, avoir peur

• 6

  understanding the form and use of reflexive verbs such as il se lève très tard, nous nous promenons chaque soir, je veux m’asseoir à côté de toi.

• 7

  understanding how to use modal verb forms to express possibility, obligation and ability je peux m’imaginer …, il doit partir demain, and impersonal expressions il faut +infinitive … and on doit +infinitive …

• 8

  introducing the use of direct object pronouns in conjunction with the present tense, je m'appelle, je t’écoute, elle les mange tous les jours, je t'aime.

• 9

  reinforcing understanding of grammar rules such as adjectives that precede the noun, and adjectives versus adverbs - bon/bien, negation

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