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French / Year 7 and 8 / Understanding language and culture / Understanding systems of language
Curriculum content descriptions
reflect on similarities and differences between French and English language structures and features, using metalanguage (AC9LF8U03)
Elaborations
- continuing to expand the use of metalanguage to describe grammatical concepts in English and French to organise learning resources such as sentence builders, verb charts, vocabulary lists with groups of pronouns, adverbs and adjectives
- explaining self-corrections and editing choices, using metalanguage
identifying elements of different types of texts (le courriel, la météo, les slogans, etc.) and explaining the relationship between the language, the structure used and the purpose of the text
building metalanguage to talk about grammar and vocabulary, for example, les formes négatives, interrogatives, masculin, féminin, singulier, pluriel, and comparing with the equivalent English term
- comparing diversity in accents, dialects and vocabulary in French-speaking communities with similar diversity in English-speaking countries
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Register (Language), Loanwords, Cognates, Metalanguage