AC9LF8U03
Years 7 to 8
Languages
AC9LF8U03 | Years 7 to 8 French: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor reflect on similarities and differences between French and English language structures and features, using metalanguage
Foundation to Year 10 sequence
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 7 to 8 French · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration continuing to expand the use of metalanguage to describe grammatical concepts in English and French to organise learning resources such as sentence builders, verb charts, vocabulary lists with groups of pronouns, adverbs and adjectives
- • Elaboration explaining self-corrections and editing choices, using metalanguage
- • Elaboration identifying elements of different types of texts (le courriel, la météo, les slogans, etc.) and explaining the relationship between the language, the structure used and the purpose of the text
- • Elaboration building metalanguage to talk about grammar and vocabulary, for example, les formes négatives, interrogatives, masculin, féminin, singulier, pluriel, and comparing with the equivalent English term
- • Elaboration comparing diversity in accents, dialects and vocabulary in French-speaking communities with similar diversity in English-speaking countries
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Read the full Years 7 to 8 French · Foundation to Year 10 sequence achievement standard