Anticipates, with visual support, the information a presentation might contain, such as Ils jouent au soccer.

Activates, with support, prior knowledge about a familiar topic, with a French sentence such as Il y a deux équipes dans une partie de soccer.

Establishes personal connections to own experiences with a topic, in a sentence such as Je joue au soccer, when discussing a sports theme.

Identifies pre-listening skills also used in ELA (e.g., Je fais une prédiction. Je fais un lien. Je partage une expérience.).

Selects cognates, familiar words, key thematic words and previously learned expressions for understanding.

Interprets spoken language with auditory clues (e.g., sighs, inflections, intonation, and background sounds) and visual clues (e.g., facial expressions, actions, gestures, and textual clues).

Identifies pertinent details in longer conversations or presentations such as with note-taking in a graphic organizer or advance organizer.

Explains a personal visualization about a listening or viewing experience with a French sentence, such as Je vois une image dans ma tête : ils jouent au soccer.

Asks the speaker to repeat an expression slowly with a phrase, such as Répétez lentement, s'il vous plait!

Identifies a strategy that was used to facilitate comprehension of the listening or viewing experience with a French sentence, such as J'utilise des mots-amis (familiar terminology for use of cognates).

Verifies a hypothesis made about the content of the viewing or listening experience with a French sentence (e.g., Oui, ils jouent aux cartes. Non, ils ne jouent pas aux cartes.).

Represents the main idea of a listening experience (e.g., with illustrations and drawings of mental images).

Summarizes a listening experience with the choice of French sentences from a list.

Asks questions about words, expressions or content, using a French question such as Qu'est-ce que ça veut dire?

Self-evaluates own understanding of the listening or viewing experience, such as with a rubric or a rating scale.