AC9L2F8C01 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.

initiate and sustain exchanges in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to students’ experiences, feelings and views, adjusting their language in response to others

Elaborations

• 1 using culturally-appropriate greetings and terms of address depending on cultural status such as when interacting with Elders and/or community members, taking into consideration kinship where appropriate, relationships, identity, gender and age when communicating between men and women, and the young
• 2 discussing aspects of their everyday lives with others and expressing personal experiences and feelings
• 3 discussing aspects of their personal worlds, such as home, school and social lives, including their use of different languages and involvement in different cultural practices
• 4 using fillers, asking questions or clarification, requesting more details or how to spell or say a word, phrase or expression in [Language] to sustain interaction
• 5 sharing their responses to the experience of learning and using [Language] within their cultural context or as second-language or additional-language learner
• 6 engaging in face-to-face or online conversations with peers about shared interests such as discussing favourite Indigenous music or art
• 7 using visual cues such as gestures, hand signs, body language and eye contact to interact in a culturally-appropriate manner
• 8 communicating with peers and other [Language] speakers in local or online communities if appropriate, using active listening skills, turn-taking cues, and requests for clarification
• 9 sharing past events or experiences and/or future goals and aspirations with their teachers and peers
• 10 inviting Elders and/or community cultural-knowledge holders where appropriate to share information about their local culture and engaging in respectful discussion such as responding to and asking questions
• 11 using [Language] in real-life experiences on Country/Place where appropriate, for example, through cooking traditional food, basket weaving, and wood carving

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