Quirky comics: French – Catastrophe! 2
This intermediate 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 2' (1:54)
(Duration: 1 minutes 54 seconds)
Frame 1-1
Girl with two hair buns: Oh, deja six heures, quelle horreur! Il faut que je sois a l'ecole de bonne heure ce matin. J' ai une interro de maths.
Frame 1-2
Girl with two hair buns: Mon sac! Ou est-ce que j' ai mis mon sac?
Girl with two hair buns: Il n'est pas la-dedans.
Girl with two hair buns: Et il n' est pas dans mon armoire non plus
Frame 2-1
Girl with two hair buns: Ca y est! Je l'ai trouve!
Frame 2-2
Girl pouring cereal: Oh! Il n'y a plus de cereales!
Frame 2-3
Girl pouring milk: Et il n'y a plus de lait non plus!
Frame 2-4
Girl with two hair buns: Berk! Il est degoutant, ce pain grille!
Frame 3-1
Girl with two hair buns and pink cat: Quelle horreur! Une mouche dans mon jus d'orange!
Frame 4-1
Girl with two hair buns walking: Bon, il est l'heure de partir. Je ne veux pas manquer l'autobus.
Frame 4-2
Girl with two hair buns steps on dog poop: Crotte! Ca c'est vraiment degoutant! Ma chaussure est toute salie!
Frame 5-1
Red bus driving off: Oh, zut! C'est degoutant! Je suis toute salie! Hep! Attendez- moi!
Frame 5-2
Girl with 2 hair buns walking: Bon, ca ne fait rien. Je pars a l' ecole a pied. J'ai encore le temps d' arriver a l'heure.
Frame 6-1
Girl with 2 hair buns: Enfin arrivée! Mais pourquoi est-ce que c'est si calme ici?
Frame 6-2
Girl with 2 hair buns: Pardon, monsieur Luron, est-ce que la cloche a deja sonne?
Painter: Mais non, il n'y a pas d' ecole aujourd' hui! C'est dimanche!
Frame 6-3
Girl with 2 hair buns: Dimanche!!! Ah, que je suis bete!
[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