AC9L1F8U02 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 features to compose and respond to texts

Elaborations

• 1 identifying a range of case marking in [Language], such as using nouns and noun suffixes, verbs and verb suffixes, and suffixes, to create new words, and developing a mind-map to show the process involved
• 2 using suffixes to indicate past, present or future, to show habitual and intentional actions/events, and to express number singular, dual or plural, and completing an information-gap activity
• 3 showing how verbs are derived from nouns, as appropriate in [Language]
• 4

  recognising how references to people, places, things and events may be varied and modified by using extra words or particles, or by using affixes, for example, expressions for having, for want of, similar to, like, and the various forms of negation or equivalent as appropriate in [Language]

• 5 developing an understanding of transitive and intransitive verbs, including devices such as embedded clauses and suffixes to link verbs to the same doer
• 6 demonstrating the main topical areas of [Language] vocabulary, such as groupings of natural species, cardinal directions, and kinship systems, and contrasting these with English vocabulary groupings, by developing a quiz
• 7 discussing relationships between [Language] and languages of the region, for example, common words and structures
• 8 using a Languages map to identify neighbouring languages, and comparing similarities and differences for words and terms among languages
• 9 sourcing digital resources to hear how other, regional languages sound, and discussing their diversity
• 10 linking and sequencing ideas using appropriate grammatical forms and language features such as connectives and linking devices
• 11 editing their own and/or peers’ texts for word choice, spelling, grammar and punctuation
• 12 understanding how the process of language-building expands existing linguistic and cultural resources in the Australian community
• 13 following protocols by acknowledging the cultural and intellectual property rights and copyright of the sources of their language work, for example, applying the rules of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP)

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