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Years 9 and 10 French

The nature of the learners At this level, students bring existing knowledge of French language and culture and a range of learning strategies to their learning. They are increasingly aware of the world beyond their own and are engaging with youth-related …

Years 9 and 10 | Years F–10 Sequence | French | Languages | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (10) ACLFRU085

understanding that past participles agree with the preceding direct object when the verb is conjugated with the auxiliary verb avoir, for example, J’ai acheté une tartelette aux fraises — je l’ai mangée trop vite!

Achievement Standard French Years 9 and 10

By the end of Year 10, students use written and spoken French to communicate with teachers, peers and others in a range of settings and for a range of purposes They use language to access and exchange information on a broad range of social, cultural and …

Elaboration (3) ACLFRC073

contributing to online discussions with young people in French-speaking contexts, comparing aspects of school and home life, for example, les examens, le stress, les sports, les droits, les responsabilités

Elaboration (3) ACLFRC074

creating a collaborative communications project such as a daily news segment for a community television or radio station, building informations discourse and using appropriate terms to introduce, identify and summarise, for example, en directe de… notre …

Elaboration (3) ACLFRC076

presenting commentaries collected from print, digital and personal sources of information on issues of relevance to young people (for example, la publicité, la santé des jeunes, les liens familiaux), and classifying according to viewpoints and perspe …

Elaboration (3) ACLFRC077

summarising and presenting information relating to topics or themes studied in other curriculum areas, using different modes of presentation to cater for different learning styles, for example, charts, diagrams, recorded spoken commentary or demonstration …

Elaboration (3) ACLFRC078

reading, viewing or listening to extracts from expressive contemporary texts such as poems, songs, dance, street art and performance, identifying elements of expression that reflect French cultural traditions or experience

Elaboration (3) ACLFRC080

considering the nature of translation, with reference to different strategies such as decoding literal meaning (word for word), reading for meaning (sense for sense) and cultural reading (between the lines)

Elaboration (3) ACLFRC081

mapping France or other francophone countries as represented on internet sites or tourist brochures in terms of regional and cultural diversity, for example, la France gastronomique: la choucroute d’Alsace, la quiche Lorraine, le bœuf bourguignon, la …

Elaboration (3) ACLFRC082

discussing how intercultural communication involves being flexible, responsive and open to alternative ways of communicating, (for example, responding to different levels of emotionality or confrontation in debate, or different levels of respect in casual …

Elaboration (3) ACLFRC083

composing a ‘cultural ID profile’ to exchange with French-speaking friends, making decisions about what points of information will be of most interest

Elaboration (3) ACLFRU085

recognising variations in conjugation for verbs such as nettoyer, envoyer, essayer, appeler, acheter, manger, (for example, nous mangeons, j’essaie)

Elaboration (3) ACLFRU086

collecting, interpreting and using textual conventions popular with young French speakers, for example, contractions, abbreviations and acronyms used in text messaging (bjr = bonjour; A+ = à plus; biz = bisous; 12C4 = un de ces quatre)

Elaboration (3) ACLFRU087

comparing language and textual features used in texts to entertain different age groups, (for example, amusing rhymes for les tout petits, dessins d’humour for older children, and les blagues, l’humour noir and l’humour adolescent for older students)

Elaboration (3) ACLFRU090

exploring the reciprocal element of intercultural communication, considering how own cultural ways of thinking and behaving affect attitudes and interactions and influence other people’s responses or interpretations

Elaboration ACLFRU084

recognising ways in which written language is different to spoken language, such as being more crafted, precise, elaborated and complex, (for example, the use of interrelated clauses and support detail (Le Pays de Galles a remporté, samedi, le Tournoi …

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