AC9L2AU8U02 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.

apply understanding of grammatical structures and features to compose and respond to texts

Elaborations

• 1 using locations for present referents, non-present referents, or abstract referents that do not exist in space
• 2 creating a digital resource demonstrating that handshape and movement represent different things in each type of DS, for example, entity DS, handling DS and SASS DSs
• 3 understanding when signers are using composite utterances, that is, those that have elements of CAs, DSs, points and fully-lexical signs in the same utterance
• 4 using different functions of NMFs such as those used for questions (yes/no and wh- forms), statements, topicalisation, negation or conditional forms
• 5 understanding instances of CA in a signed text on video, and recording the time marker for when it occurs, and providing suggestions for why it has been used at that point
• 6 recognising that nouns can be pluralised by locating them repeatedly regardless of their original location
• 7 practising the use of citation form of plain verbs and indicating verbs change when depicting more than 2 people
• 8

  identifying when and how some verbs and nouns use the same sign but change the movement in a regular way making noun-verb pairs, such as

  SCISSORS

  versus

  CUT-WITH-SCISSORS

  , intensifying adjectives through the use of NMFs such as

  HOT

  , signing with great emphasis, and depicting wide-eyed expression for

  EXTREMELY HOT

  , or signing

  TOUGH

  with great exertion to show

  VERY TOUGH

• 9 understanding that signers may include linguistic and gestural elements in a clause, that is, signers can tell, show or do both simultaneously, using a combination of lexicalised signs and CAs, DSs, NMFs and space
• 10

  recounting events using conjunctions with separate signs as discourse markers such as

  THEN, ANYWAY, FS:SO, PLUS, NEXT

  , or by NMFs, for example, by pausing between clauses or clasping hands

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