AC9L2AU10U02 Year 9 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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 grammatical structures and features to predict meaning and compose texts that contain some complex structures and ideas

Elaborations

• 1

  using signs that function as interjections or discourse markers, such as

  WHAT

  ? or

  THEN, FS:SO, ANYWAY

• 2 experimenting with referents in signing space such as character space, for example, using a BC handshape (use of non-dominant hand) to indicate putting a glass on a table, using 5-claw in 2 locations to represent 2 houses
• 3 identifying instances of DSs and their type, such as entity, handling or SASSs, in increasingly complex Auslan texts and using these in own creation of texts
• 4

  producing reciprocal forms of some indicating signs, such as

  LOOK, GIVE

  and

  INVITE

  , in conjunction with CA elements

• 5

  using modal verbs and NMFs to express possibility, obligation and ability, such as

  MIGHT, WILL

  and

  SHOULD

• 6 applying the different types of verb modification, such as spatial and directional, number of referents, the action over time, manner and intensification
• 7

  understanding and using conditional forms with a main and dependent clause and associated NMFs, for example,

  TOMORROW FS:IF RAIN NMF:EYEBROWS RAISED FOOTBALL CANCEL

  If it rains tomorrow the football will be cancelled.

• 8 applying knowledge of how meaning or emphasis in phrases can be changed by reordering clauses or parts of clauses, understanding that the presence of CAs or DSs affects how a clause is structured

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