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French / Year 9 and 10 / Understanding language and culture / Understanding systems of language
Curriculum content descriptions
apply features and conventions of spoken French to extend fluency in responding to and creating texts in familiar and unfamiliar contexts (AC9LF10U01)
Elaborations
increasing fluency and accuracy, using appropriate rhythm, pitch and the use of connectives such as normalement … à vrai dire … and gestures to enhance communication
applying correct pronunciation to more complex syllable combinations, for example, la magnitude, les augmentations
recognising the fluid nature of spoken language, identifying features such as interactivity and the use of repetition, pauses, interruptions and contractions such as the dropping of ne in negative structures, je sais pas trop; incomplete sentences and reliance on non-verbal elements and vocal expression, Dis donc, t’es là? Je suis déjà là — t’es où toi?
- recognising and responding to challenges associated with clarity and pace in audio texts such as station or airport announcements or recorded phone messages
recognising the diversity of spoken forms of French from region to region, such as les accents du Midi, l’accent parisien, toulousain, picard and from country to country le Québecois, la Réunion, considering concepts such as la norme, la diversité, l’intelligibilité and les élites in terms of how language variation can both reflect and shape social and cultural processes
- applying appropriate pauses and pace of delivery to convey meaning, emphasis, feelings, emotion and create effects in spoken texts
- using features and devices such as alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, simile and metaphor to extend and emphasis meaning in spoken texts
- elongating the syllables to fit the words of a song with the notes in music
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Spoken texts, Speech sounds, French language, Katakana, Stress (Speech)