AC9L2AU10U02 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding systems of language

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.

Elaborations

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

  WHAT

  ? or

  THEN, FS:SO, ANYWAY

• • 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
• • 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
• •

  producing reciprocal forms of some indicating signs, such as

  LOOK, GIVE

  and

  INVITE

  , in conjunction with CA elements

• •

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

  MIGHT, WILL

  and

  SHOULD

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

  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.

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: