AC9LA10C05 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.

create and present informative and imaginative texts for diverse contexts and purposes, selecting vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures and a range of features and conventions to engage different audiences

Elaborations

• 1 handwriting Arabic script and representing script digitally in texts, for example, using an Arabic keyboard and developing transliteration strategies
• 2 using a range of literary devices such as simile, metaphor and onomatopoeia to enhance texts, express ideas, convey meaning and highlight important themes, for example, كالأسد شجاع ، الدموع من شلال عيناها
• 3 evaluating and reporting on a contemporary social, ethical or environmental sustainability issue, using a range of text types and presenting information in formats such as a flow chart, slide presentation or video clip
• 4 writing a journal entry, or contributing to a school newsletter in Arabic reflecting on the impact of a visit to a significant cultural location on a First Nations Country/Place, and, with permission, referring to cultural knowledge of the site
• 5 creating digital clips or social media posts designed to persuade, dissuade, inform or inspire
• 6 creating imaginative texts in print, digital or online formats, such as short stories, video clips or plays, and building characters, themes and settings to entertain a specific audience, such as younger learners of Arabic
• 7 composing and presenting imaginative poems and songs that relate to significant celebrations or events in both the Arabic-speaking world and Australia, for example, الأمهات أو الآباء لعيد شعر
• 8

  creating bilingual material to share with the local Arabic-speaking community, regarding features of the local environment such as the ecosystem, flora and fauna, and information about recycling programs, community groups and activities, for example, الظهر بعد خميس نهار كل تلتقي العربية الجمعية لجنة ان

• 9 creating captions or commentaries in Arabic and English to accompany texts such as song lyrics, video clips, film extracts or parts of a television program, and discussing the best ways of achieving consistency in meaning
• 10 collaborating with peers to create their own dramatic or humorous representations of people, situations or events encountered in their own lives that reflect their experiences of living in a multicultural and multilingual society
• 11

  creating spoken, written and multimodal texts such as digital profiles, timelines or journals to showcase significant milestones, influential people, events or experiences that have helped shape their lives, for example, عندما كنت صغيراً ربحت جائزة أفضل تلميذ في اللغة العربية تعلمت اللغة العربية من جدي

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