Quirky comics: French – Catastrophe! 1
This beginner text is about a girl who encounters a sequence of bad events while trying to get to school.
The Quirky comics video texts support the teaching of 'Understanding texts' outcomes in the Modern Languages K-10 Syllabus. This can be done in many ways, including:
- Students can use the provided transcripts to read the stories aloud and record themselves perform the stories as plays.
- They can summarise, sequence, extend and change the beginning or ending of the stories.
- They can write profiles of the characters and then put them in different situations.
The texts can also lead to communicative 'Interacting' or 'Creating texts' tasks, such as, telling a nurse why you don’t feel well or writing an invitation to a birthday party.
Watch 'Catastrophe! – Level 1' (1:38)
(Duration: 1 minutes 39 seconds)
Frame 1-1
Girl with two hair buns: Ah, six heures. Oh la la! Quelle horreur! J'ai un test de maths a l' ecole ce matin!
Frame 1-2
Girl with two hair buns: Mon sac! Ou est mon sac?
Frame 1-3
Girl with two hair buns: Il n' est pas la.
Frame 1-4
Girl with two hair buns: Il n' est pas dans mon armoire.
Frame 2-1
Girl with two hair buns: Ah! Le voila!
Frame 2-2
Girl pouring cereal: Oh! Plus de cereales!
Frame 2-3
Girl pouring milk: Et plus de lait!
Frame 3-1
Girl with two hair buns: Berk! Il est horrible, ce pain grille!
Frame 4-1
Girl with two hair buns and pink cat: Quelle horreur! Une mouche dans mon jus d'orange!
Frame 4-2
Girl with two hair buns walking: Bon, je suis prete! A l'autobus!
Frame 4-3
Girl with two hair buns steps on dog poop: Crotte! C'est degoutant!
Frame 5-1
Red bus driving off: Oh, zut! C'est degoutant!
Frame 5-2
Girl with 2 hair buns: Hep! Attendez- moi!
Frame 5-3
Girl with 2 hair buns walking: Tant pis. Je pars a pied. J'ai le temps.
Frame 6-1
Girl with 2 hair buns: Enfin arrivee! C'est bien calme, ici!
Frame 6-2
Girl with 2 hair buns: Pardon, monsieur Luron, la cloche a sonne?
Frame 6-3
Painter: Mais non, c' est dimanche aujourd' hui!
Frame 6-4
Girl with 2 hair buns: Pas possible! Dimanche!!!
[End of transcript]
Syllabus
Please note:
Syllabus outcomes and content descriptors from Languages K-10 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2019