AC9L2AU10U02 Years 9 to 10 Languages

Content descriptor apply knowledge of grammatical structures and features to predict meaning and compose texts that contain some complex structures and ideas

Elaborations

• • Elaboration using signs that function as interjections or discourse markers, such as WHAT ? or THEN, FS:SO, ANYWAY
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration producing reciprocal forms of some indicating signs, such as LOOK, GIVE and INVITE , in conjunction with CA elements
• • Elaboration using modal verbs and NMFs to express possibility, obligation and ability, such as MIGHT, WILL and SHOULD
• • Elaboration applying the different types of verb modification, such as spatial and directional, number of referents, the action over time, manner and intensification
• • Elaboration 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.

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• • Elaboration 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