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AC9LF8U03: Year 7 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LF8U03 Year 7 Languages

AC9LF8U03 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

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

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

Elaborations

  • • 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
  • • explaining self-corrections and editing choices, using metalanguage
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    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

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    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

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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANFREF10Y78
Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 8, students initiate and maintain interactions in French language in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to a range of interests and experiences. They use French to collaborate and problem-solve, and adjust language in response to others. They interpret information, ideas and opinions in texts. They demonstrate understanding of similarities and differences between languages, in both familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts, by adjusting and reorganising responses. They select and use vocabulary, sentence structures and expressions to create texts.Students apply the conventions of spoken French to develop fluency. They demonstrate understanding that spoken, written and multimodal texts use different language conventions, structures and features to convey meaning. They comment on structures and features of French text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how the French language, culture and identity are interconnected, and compare this with their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.