AC9L1F8U01 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 knowledge of conventions of spoken [Language] to enhance fluency, and respond to and create texts, in familiar and unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

• 1 communicating effectively by using appropriate register and intonation when interacting in spontaneous conversations with family and/or community members
• 2 reading aloud a real or imagined story to younger students, using appropriate intonation, stress and tone to share meaning
• 3 retelling a Creation, Dreamtime, Dreaming or traditional story to younger students to model spoken language and share and strengthen connections with Country/Place and Peoples
• 4 comparing speech-sound constraints in different Aboriginal languages and different Torres Strait Islander languages, for example, sets of vowel and consonant phonemes, allowable combinations of sounds, and rules for word stress
• 5 developing metalanguage to describe and talk about sounds and phonology, such as the articulation categories in Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages, for example, the shape of the mouth and lips, the position of the tongue in relation to teeth, palate and air passage, and rolling or trilling of the tongue
• 6 applying knowledge of the shape of the mouth, position of tongue, etc., when pronouncing words, phrases and expressions
• 7 sharing phonological knowledge of their own Aboriginal language(s) and/or Torres Strait Islander language(s), recognising similarities and differences, and discussing how unique sounds are connected with Country/Place and Peoples
• 8 using their knowledge of alphabetic conventions to transcribe speech sounds, syllables and words in [Language]
• 9 transcribing spoken language, using a range of alphabetic and punctuation conventions, supported by their grammatical and vocabulary knowledge of [Language]

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