AC9LA10C03 Year 9 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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.

evaluate and synthesise information, ideas and perspectives in a broad range of spoken, written and multimodal texts and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• 1

  analysing information from texts such as articles, reports, charts, diagrams and news items, to discuss topics such as technology, world sports, and youth culture, for example, السخرية من وضع معين؛ التنديد بفعل معين؛ تزكية فكرة ما من خلال العبارات اللغوية والصور والتنسيق العام للتقرير

• 2

  distinguishing between fact and opinion in texts such as articles and reports in print and digital form, using critical literacy skills to recognise bias by evaluating textual purpose, for example, التحيّز لفكر ما والمبالغة: إن جميع الشباب متهوّر، هذا جيل غير مسؤول الحياديّة تجاه الأفكار المؤيدة والمعارضة: هناك بعض الشباب المتهور ، إن غالبية الشّباب غير مسؤول

• 3

  obtaining information in order to debate issues of interest such as the environment, technology, expectations of teenagers or the generation gap, using persuasive or evaluative language

• 4 listening to or reading First Nations Australian authors’ stories in English, and creating an author profile in Arabic
• 5

  comparing different perspectives about an environmental issue, for example, a tourist company/profit perspective versus an environmental protection perspective, and incorporating information from both perspectives into a multimodal text to raise awareness about the issue, for example, من المهم أن نحافظ على البيئة بدلا من كسب المال لكي يستطيع الجيل القادم التمتع بجمال الطبيعة في المستقبل

• 6 locating and researching information from reliable sources to inform decisions, by weighing up options and making an ‘advantages and disadvantages’ table about a range of topics, for example, the best time of year to visit an Arabic-speaking country or a country that may best suit them for student exchange
• 7

  analysing the lyrics of contemporary Arabic songs, identifying themes, language devices, messages and cultural aspects expressed and incorporating elements into their own original songs أغنية كن صديقي (ماجدة الرومي)، اللغة العربية (الشاعر حافظ ابراهيم)، اغنية أعطني الناي وغني (فيروز)

• 8 discussing how texts such as short films or video clips portray social issues such as relationships, wealth and poverty and cultural change, or values such as honesty and equality
• 9 conducting face-to-face or online interviews with peers, family or community members to compare life stories and perspectives on topics such as migration to Australia, living ‘across’ cultures or relationships with technology, and presenting findings in a newsletter article or community newspaper
• 10

  adapting and changing texts to suit different contexts, purposes and audiences such as changing a formal speech to an informal message to a friend, for example, حضرة الطلاب، اجلبوا قبعاتكم ، لانّ غداً لديكم رياضة مرحبا رامي، لا تنسى أن تجلب معك القبعة غداً والّا ستقع في مشكلة كبيرة

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