AC9L2AU8C02 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.

collaborate in activities that involve the language of transaction, negotiation and problem-solving to plan projects and events

Elaborations

• 1 working in pairs or small groups to design and create visual resources that promote Auslan as an important area of study
• 2 working collaboratively to create instructional or procedural texts for younger learners
• 3 brainstorming, planning and working together to advertise and present an intercultural event for their year-level peers
• 4 preparing for the visit of a member of the Deaf community, discussing how to ensure effective communication between the visitor and deaf and hearing members of the class
• 5

  providing feedback on completed events or activities and exchanging reflections, for example,

  FIRST PRO1 DOUBT FS:IF WILL GO-WELL, HAVE-A-LOOK GO-GREAT

  At the start, I wasn’t sure it would work, but after a while I thought it went well.

  PRO1 WRONG NEVER AGAIN FS:DO SAME

  I won’t do that ever again.

• 6

  problem-solving around collaborative activities such as model-building, using wh- questions, for example,

  WHY FAIL WHY?

  Why isn’t it working?

  WHO THINK CAN FIX?

  Who thinks they can fix it?

  FINISH, NEXT WHAT?

  What do we do next after we finish this?

• 7

  giving directions for outdoor activities such as an obstacle course or bushwalk, including expressions such as

  HAVE DS:ROUND-OVAL FIRST RUN DS:DRAW-LINE THEN STOP. NEXT CLIMB DS:CLIMB-OVER DS:LAND-ON-FEET THEN CRAWL DS:CRAWL-UNDER-FLAT-THING

  There’s a big oval. First you will run along one side of it. Then stop at the wall. Next you will climb over the wall then crawl under the net.

• 8 investigating appropriate ways to join or take leave of a group interacting in Auslan and following appropriate protocols in interpreting situations outside the classroom, for example, in the playground
• 9 sharing responsibility for providing information and context for a new participant joining a conversation

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