AC9LF2U02

Elaborations

• AC9LF2U02_E1<p>becoming familiar with the French alphabet, noticing similarities to and differences from English, for example, <em>double-v, i-grec</em></p>
• AC9LF2U02_E2recognising that French uses the Roman alphabet like English, but unlike English, French has accent marks
• AC9LF2U02_E3<p>noticing that the use of accent marks can change the sound of letters, for example, noticing that a cedilla makes a <em>‘c’</em> sound like an ‘s’ - <em>ç</em>, and the use of acute and grave accents</p>
• AC9LF2U02_E4recognising familiar words and phrases in French texts that look, sound and have the same meaning in French as in English
• AC9LF2U02_E5<p>exploring the similarity to English of the French subject+verb+object structure such as <em>Je mange la pomme; Tu as le cahier. </em></p>
• AC9LF2U02_E6noticing that there are different types of texts such as picture books, nursery rhymes, tongue twisters, lists, signs, etc.
• AC9LF2U02_E7<p>recognising that French uses lower case for days of the week and months of the year and the date, for example, <em>dimanche, juillet, Aujourd’hui c’est le lundi 2 janvier.</em></p>
• AC9LF2U02_E8<p>noticing that French uses definite and indefinite articles in singular or plural forms such as<em> une fille, le concert, les croissants,</em> including the l’ form for nouns beginning with a vowel or the letter ‘h’ such as<em> l’hiver, l’école;</em> and <em>un chapeau, une chaise, des amis</em></p>
• AC9LF2U02_E9<p>developing the use of appropriate pronouns to identify people, for example, <em>Je m’appelle Adam, et toi, tu t’appelles comment? Comment allez-vous?</em></p>