AC9L1AU8EC02 Year 7 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 Languages provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

engage in modelled signed and visual exchanges with peers to organise activities related to daily life and school environment

Elaborations

• 1

  giving and following instructions for class routines, for example,

  WE PLAY GAME. PLEASE STAND UP

  We’re going to play a game; please stand up.

  PT+C LOOK-AT PRO1

  Eyes to the front.

  PLEASE WITH TWO

  Please find a partner.

  DS:TAP-ON-SHOULDER

  Get attention of person next to you.

• 2

  giving and following directions or instructions in sequential order, using ordinal numbers and list buoys, for example,

  BUOY:(1)PAPER LBUOY:(2)DRAW-CIRCLE LBUOY:(3)COLOUR

  Firstly, get some paper. Secondly, draw a circle. Then colour it in.

• 3

  negotiating turn-taking in activities and discussions, for example,

  POSS1 TURN FIRST POSS2 TURN

  It’s my turn first, then your turn.

• 4

  discussing roles and responsibilities that involve organising, negotiating and prioritising tasks, such as devising an activity or game for the class, for example,

  DEAF HISTORY PROJECT AGREE, MAKE LBUOY(1):PRESENTATION LBUOY(2):GAME

  For the Deaf history project, I agree, we will make a presentation, then a game

  PRO2 TYPE PRO1 WRITE

  You type and I’ll write.

• 5 participating in games, activities or role-plays such as enacting scenarios involving being lost and asking for or giving directions, or playing 'Sign circle' to practise new vocabulary or passing on a sign shape
• 6 exchanging information about daily activities and individual schedules to determine agreed date/time for an event
• 7 reviewing peer work in pairs, providing feedback and encouragement or praise on aspects and features of the signed text
• 8 considering adaptations to Auslan use when communicating in different physical environments such as across a large yard, or when one or both hands are occupied, for example, variations in vocabulary, size of signing space, clarity of signs, use of fingerspelling and NMFs
• 9 managing visual noise such as background, glare from windows, filming and online protocols regarding signing space on camera

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