AC9LFF03 – Foundation Languages: null

This Content Descriptor from Foundation 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.

Elaborations

• 1 sharing ideas and experiences of learning the French language
• 2 noticing that French is spoken in many different places in the world apart from France
• 3 placing France and French-speaking countries on a world map and adding the countries represented in the class
• 4 using the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) map of the languages of Australia to notice the language(s) of First Nations Australians in their local area and/or across Australia
• 5 noticing how local names of streets, places and landmarks can have their origins in language(s) of First Nations Australians
• 6 comparing aspects of Australian and French children’s lifestyles (playing games, buying and eating food, interacting with family members, etc.) such as school canteen meals or daily greetings in the family
• 7 noticing their own use of words, expressions or behaviours that make them who they are, including words from different languages, ways of celebrating or talking that may not be familiar to other people
• 8

  exchanging ideas, feelings and understandings of language and culture through play-based experiences such as dress-ups, puppets, and pretend cafes, French shops such as la boulangerie and market stands

• 9 playing and engaging with cultural items such as Euros, postcards and realia from French-speaking countries

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