Year 7 German Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 7 Languages by the end of the year. Teachers can use it to guide assessment design, collect evidence of learning, and ensure planning stays aligned with the Australian Curriculum v9.
What Students Should Know
By the end of Year 8, students use German language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions, and recognise familiar gestures, questions and instructions in exchanges. They recognise relationships between spoken and written forms. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in German or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language, and modelled sentence and grammatical structures to create texts.
Students approximate pronunciation and intonation in spoken German. They demonstrate understanding that German has conventions and rules for non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They comment on aspects of German and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that the German language is connected with culture and identity, and that this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.
Content Descriptors by Strand
This standard is supported by 10 Content Descriptors:
Communicating meaning in German
Interacting in German
AC9LG8EC01 interact with others using modelled language to exchange information in familiar contexts about self and personal worlds AC9LG8EC02 develop language to interact in exchanges, routines, tasks and responsibilities related to classroom and interests AC9LG8EC03 engage in modelled non-verbal, spoken and written exchanges with peers to organise activities relating to daily life and school environmentMediating meaning in and between languages
AC9LG8EC04 locate and process information and ideas in familiar spoken, written and multimodal texts, responding in ways appropriate to cultural context, purpose and audience AC9LG8EC05 develop and begin to apply strategies to interpret, translate and convey meaning in German in familiar contextsCreating text in German
AC9LG8EC06 create spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts using appropriate vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures, and some textual conventionsUnderstanding language and culture
Understanding systems of language
AC9LG8EU01 recognise and use features of the German sound system, including pitch, rhythm, stress, pronunciation and intonation, and demonstrate understanding of how these are represented in familiar contexts AC9LG8EU02 develop knowledge of, and use structures and features of, the German grammatical and writing systems to understand and create spoken, written and multimodal texts AC9LG8EU03 compare German language structures and features with English, using familiar metalanguageUnderstanding the interrelationship of language and culture
AC9LG8EU04 recognise how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and valuesAt a Glance
| Strand | Substrand | CDs | Elaborations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communicating meaning in German | Interacting in German | 3 | 22 |
| Communicating meaning in German | Mediating meaning in and between languages | 2 | 19 |
| Communicating meaning in German | Creating text in German | 1 | 9 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language | 3 | 26 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture | 1 | 12 |
| Total | 10 | 88 | |