AC9L2AU8C05
Year 7
Languages
AC9L2AU8C05 – Year 7 Languages: Creating text in Auslan
Strand
Communicating meaning in Auslan
Substrand
Creating text in Auslan
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.
Content Descriptor
create and present signed, visual and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts, selecting fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, appropriate to text type
Elaborations
- • creating signed announcements to inform members of the school community about events such as a Deaf arts performance, festivals or the National Week of Deaf People
- • developing a signed news report or public announcement to inform an imagined audience of a new baby animal arrival at the zoo, or a topical news event at school
- • recounting their own and others’ experiences of school-related or personal events, such as school camps, holidays or concerts
- • creating an advertisement in Auslan to promote travel to a significant cultural location on a First Nations Country/Place, including what to see and do
- • creating individual biographies, including elements such as family origins, traditions, beliefs, experiences, and considering how these influence their sense of identity, including First Nations Australians
- • providing instructions in an engaging or entertaining style to create interest in a group activity such as a maths game or sign linguistics game
- • creating digital clips or social media posts designed to persuade and encourage a change in behaviour among peers on an issue of relevance such as the importance of recycling
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- • creating and performing a signed song, poem or skit for a school talent show
- • retelling of a humorous anecdote or hosting improvisation games requiring a spontaneous response such as ‘60 seconds to make the audience laugh ...’
- • playing with light and shadow as a means of highlighting handshapes and movement, for example, in shadow puppet performances
- • role-playing an imagined dialogue, partially scripted, incorporating elements of dramatic effect, such as emotion or humour
- • role-playing interpreting in a range of contexts, for example, in a shop or at a sports match
- • making a short documentary in Auslan about a topical issue, moving through the processes of drafting, translating, editing and captioning, trialling alternative captioning tools