AC9LF8U03 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.

reflect on similarities and differences between French and English language structures and features, using metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 explaining self-corrections and editing choices, using metalanguage
• 3

  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

• 4

  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

• 5 comparing diversity in accents, dialects and vocabulary in French-speaking communities with similar diversity in English-speaking countries

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