Intercultural understandings Provide opportunities for students to enhance understanding of their own language(s) and culture(s) in relation to the French language and culture, and enable them to reflect on the ways in which culture influences communication: the shifting trends in youth culture in a French-speaking community e.g. social media, technology, films, music, fashion, sport, politics, environment differences and similarities between what is trending with youth in French-speaking communities to that in the students’ lives. Language learning and communication strategies Provide opportunities for students to practise the following strategies: use oral clues to predict and help with interpreting meaning deduce meaning by applying rules identify key words and main points, make notes and summarise think critically and analytically structure an argument and express ideas and opinions manipulate known elements in a new context to create meaning in written forms. Dictionaries use a bilingual dictionary. Assessment Task 3: Response: Listening Listen to French texts and respond in English to questions in English. Assessment Task 4: Written communication Write an email in approximately 100 words in French. Learning contexts and topics Provide opportunities for learning and assessment on the following context and topic: The changing world – Communicating in a modern world. Students consider the role of technologies in the daily lives of people around the world. Text types and textual conventions Provide opportunities for students to respond to and to produce the following text types: advertisement announcement article blog posting chart conversation email table. Linguistic resources Provide opportunities for students to acquire and use the following resources: 11–16 Vocabulary introduce new vocabulary, phrases and expressions through texts used related to the role of technologies in the daily lives of people around the world. Grammar adjectives (regular and common irregular forms, position, agreement with nouns, interrogative) adverbs (simple) articles (definite, indefinite) conjunctions (coordinating conjunctions, conjunctions of conclusion) nouns (gender, number: singular and plural) numerals (cardinals, ordinals, dates) prepositions (simple, articulated) pronouns (subject) sentence and phrase types (sentences: statements, affirmative, negative, question words with que) verbs (present tense: regular and common irregular verbs, common reflexive verbs). Sound and writing systems understanding of sound and spelling: contractions, inversion (word order in enchaînements,
Intercultural understandings Provide opportunities for students to enhance understanding of their own language(s) and culture(s) in relation to the French language and culture, and enable them to reflect on the ways in which culture influences communication: the shifting trends in youth culture in a French-speaking community e.g. social media, technology, films, music, fashion, sport, politics, environment differences and similarities between what is trending with youth in French-speaking communities to that in the students’ lives. Language learning and communication strategies Provide opportunities for students to practise the following strategies: use oral clues to predict and help with interpreting meaning deduce meaning by applying rules identify key words and main points, make notes and summarise think critically and analytically structure an argument and express ideas and opinions manipulate known elements in a new context to create meaning in written forms. Dictionaries use a bilingual dictionary. Assessment Task 3: Response: Listening Listen to French texts and respond in English to questions in English. Assessment Task 4: Written communication Write an email in approximately 100 words in French. 11–16 Learning contexts and topics Provide opportunities for learning and assessment on the following context and topic: The changing world – Communicating in a modern world. Students consider the role of technologies in the daily lives of people around the world. Text types and textual conventions Provide opportunities for students to respond to and to produce the following text types: advertisement announcement article blog posting chart conversation email table. Linguistic resources Provide opportunities for students to acquire and use the following resources: Vocabulary introduce new vocabulary, phrases and expressions through texts used related to the role of technologies in the daily lives of people around the world. Grammar adjectives (regular and common irregular forms, position, agreement with nouns, interrogative) adverbs (simple) articles (definite, indefinite) conjunctions (coordinating conjunctions, conjunctions of conclusion) nouns (gender, number: singular and plural) numerals (cardinals, ordinals, dates) prepositions (simple, articulated) pronouns (subject) sentence and phrase types (sentences: statements, affirmative, negative, question words with que) verbs (present tense: regular and common irregular verbs, common reflexive verbs). Sound and writing systems understanding of sound and spelling: enchaînements, contractions, inversion (word order in