AC9L1AU8U02 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.

apply understanding of grammatical structures and expressions to compose and respond to a range of texts

Elaborations

• 1 applying various types of clauses such as questions, topicalised sentences, negation or conditionals and recognising that these often co-occur with particular NMFs
• 2 identifying the ways that signers add spatial elements to communication, for example, using DSs from a viewer's perspective to refer to the same referent throughout a text
• 3 applying the knowledge of where and how DSs are used, through close and distant focus, to move from one frame of reference to another, for example, zooming in or showing the whole scene
• 4 describing real or imagined experiences at a different time, using CAs to shift from one role into another, through eye-gaze change, body shift, head orientation change, and matching facial expressions
• 5 applying citation form of plain verbs and indicating that verbs change when depicting more than 2 people
• 6 recognising that nouns can be pluralised by locating them repeatedly, regardless of their original location
• 7

  using both directional and locational indicating verbs, for example,

  GIVE PRO3

  and

  GIVE PRO1

  ; and

  OPERATION

  (cochlear implant versus appendix operation)

• 8

  intensifying adjectives using NMFs, for example, signing

  HOT

  with great emphasis and depicting wide-eyed expression for

  EXTREMELY HOT,

  or signing

  TOUGH

  with great exertion to show

  VERY TOUGH

• 9

  knowing that, typically, signers use DSs to show spatial relationships/prepositions, not separate signs such as

  ON

  or

  UNDER

• 10

  using conjunctions such as

  PLUS

  ,

  IF

  or

  BUT

  to create cohesion in a narrative, recount or procedural text

• 11

  identifying when and how some verbs and nouns use the same sign but change the movement in a regular way making noun-verb pairs, such as

  SCISSORS

  versus

  CUT-WITH-SCISSORS

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