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Years 3 and 4 French

The nature of the learners At this level, children are developing awareness of their social worlds and of their memberships of various groups including of the French class. They are developing literacy capabilities in English, such as writing in the …

Years 3 and 4 | Years F–10 Sequence | French | Languages | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard French Years 3 and 4

By the end of Year 4, students interact with teachers and each other through classroom routines, action-related talk and play. They exchange greetings and wishes, respond to familiar instructions and to questions such as Qu’est-ce que c’est? …

ACLFRU032

Notice differences between simple spoken, written and multimodal French texts used in familiar contexts, and compare with similar texts in English.[Key concepts: mode, medium, language features; Key processes: noticing, comparing, describing, explain …

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ACLFRU034

Understand that languages change over time and influence each other, and that French has influenced many languages, including English[Key concepts: influence, change, exchange; Key processes: identifying, classifying, interpreting]

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Elaboration (3) ACLFRC022

‘finding French’ at home or in the community to create collections or displays, for example, French words used in English language advertisements, shop signs, recipe books or menus

Elaboration ACLFRC026

identifying and comparing key words in French and English versions of favourite stories (for example, La chenille qui fait des trous and The Very Hungry Caterpillar; La vieille dame qui avala une mouche and The Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly), and comparing …

Elaboration (1) ACLFRC026

playing matching-pair games with French and English word cards, for example, Le Calendrier, matching words in both languages for days of the week, months and seasons

Elaboration (2) ACLFRC026

collecting and using French words and expressions which do not translate easily into English (for example, bon appétit, bon voyage, voilà!) and French words used by English speakers, for example, ‘café’, ‘éclair’, ‘mousse’, ‘chic’

Elaboration (3) ACLFRC026

finding English words in French texts (for example, l’Internet, le sandwich), and considering how French speakers might pronounce the English words and why they are not translated

Elaboration (3) ACLFRC027

alternating between French and English versions of games such as Un…deux...trois…soleil and What time is it, Mister Wolf? or Caillou, papier, ciseaux and Rock, paper, scissors

Elaboration (2) ACLFRU030

observing differences in pronunciation of word endings shared with English such as -tion and -ent, for example, attention, situation, commencement, accident

Elaboration ACLFRU031

developing a metalanguage in French for talking about language, using terms similar to those used in English, such as le verbe, l’adjectif, l’adverbe, la conjonction and le vocabulaire

Elaboration (2) ACLFRU032

analysing features of simple spoken and written texts in French, such as a verbal greeting or a written postcard (noting, for example, the sequencing of the message, terms of address and ways of signing off), and comparing with similar texts in Engli …

Elaboration (3) ACLFRU033

finding examples of shortened noun forms in colloquial French (such as le resto, le frigo, le foot, le prof), comparing with the use of abbreviations in Australian English (such as ‘brekkie’, ‘ambo’ and ‘arvo’), and considering when or how they are u …

Elaboration (1) ACLFRU034

collecting French words used in English (for example, le restaurant, le café, le chauffeur, le ballet, le croissant), and comparing how they are pronounced by French and English speakers

Elaboration (2) ACLFRU034

discovering some of the English words used by French speakers (for example, le coach, le blog, l’Internet, le football, le corner, le burger, le denim), and considering if they are the same kinds of words as those borrowed from French into English

Elaboration (4) ACLFRU034

‘finding French’ at home or in the community to create a class collection or display, for example, French products, labels or words used in English language advertisements, shop signs, recipe books or menus

Elaboration (1) ACLFRU035

understanding that French has close connections to other languages which have shared histories and many similar words, for example, English, French, Italian and Spanish (‘the bank’, la banque, la banca, el banco; ‘art’, l’art, l’arte, el arte)

Elaboration (2) ACLFRU036

exploring how and why some languages have more words related to particular things than other languages do, for example, Australian-English words associated with surfing (‘bomb’, ‘barrel’, ‘tube’, ‘snaking’), or French words for different kinds of breads …

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