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WS01 - Email to a new pen pal

Languages, French, Years 7-8

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. 

Communicating meaning in French | Interacting in French

AC9LF8C01

initiate and sustain exchanges in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to students’ experiences, feelings and views, adjusting their language in response to others

Communicating meaning in French | Creating text in French

AC9LF8C05

create and present spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts for specific purposes, selecting vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures, features and conventions appropriate to text type and context

Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language

AC9LF8U02

apply understanding of grammatical structures and expressions to compose and respond to texts

1. Creates text to initiate an interaction with a French-speaking new pen pal.

 

2. Uses the appropriate register when exchanging greetings in an email with a peer, for example, tu.

 

3. Uses the relative pronoun qui correctly. 

 

4. Conjugates verbs correctly to agree with the subject, for example, Mes parents s'appellent ... Comment t'appelles-tu?, Le mur est blanc. 

 

5. Invites responses by asking questions relevant to context, for example, Tu as des frères et des sœurs?, Qu'est-ce qu'il y a dans ta chambre?

 

6. Uses adverbs to enhance meaning, for example, Ils sont très mignons!

 

7. Uses descriptive and expressive language to describe self and home, for example, J'ai les cheveux blonds, assez longs, et les yeux bleus, Ma maison est assez grande. Le jardin est très grand.

  

8. Applies correct word order to show ownership.

 

9. Uses prepositions of place, for example, Sur mon lit il y a mes animaux en peluche.