AC9L2AU8EC05 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.

create signed, visual and multimodal informative and imaginative texts using modelled fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space

Elaborations

• 1 recounting events from the weekend or a special occasion, demonstrating sequencing
• 2 designing a multimodal presentation to explain home or school routines, or the events at a school camp or sports day
• 3 sharing information from their home or local community using visual infographics or diagrams, for example, family traditions or cultural events
• 4 creating an advertisement in Auslan to promote travel to a significant cultural First Nations Country/Place location, including what to see and do
• 5 creating and comparing individual biographies, including elements such as family origins, traditions, beliefs and experiences, and considering how these influence their sense of identity
• 6 re-enacting short stories or wordless animations that include 2 characters and their interactions, through the use of CAs and depiction
• 7 creating a signed skit to tell a story, using a variety of NMFs, and without lexical signs
• 8 describing items of school equipment such as those used in woodwork, science or sports, and giving simple signed explanations of how they work
• 9

  creating short sequences of signs using a fixed handshape, such as the index finger ‘point’, for example,

  PRO1 SEE PT+f SNAKE! DS:TRAVEL-ON-GROUND DS:WIND-UP-TOP-TREE

  I saw a snake on the ground over there. The snake then slithered across and up to the top of the tree.

• 10 creating a signed music video clip or poem in Auslan based on a source text
• 11 developing digital glossaries of new sign vocabulary, which can be used to share their personal learning with family members or as a resource

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