AC9LA10EC04 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1

  accessing multimodal texts detailing lifestyles in Arabic-speaking countries, identifying features of ways of life that reflect modernity or tradition and summarising findings, for example, في العصر الحالي الناس يستخدمون السيارات بدلا من ركوب الجمال

• 2

  responding to ideas presented in various texts such as traditional poems, films, songs or video clips and identifying and classifying words, expressions or references that convey information about culture or context, for example, أسلوب القصيدة مشوق، الشاعر يستخدم أسلوب التشبيه للتعبير عن الصداقة إيقاع الأغنية يعبر عن مشاعر الأم تجاه ابنها كنت وحيدا بلا صديق يؤنسني وقت الضيق

• 3

  surveying members of the local Arabic-speaking community regarding suggestions about local facilities and activities and creating a proposal to present to the local council such as a community garden, volunteer activities, sports or clubs, for example, أودُّ أن أنظم يوما لتنظيف الحدائق، أريدُ أن أؤسس فريقا لكرة القدم في منطقتنا

• 4 listening to or reading First Nations Australian authors’ stories in English and creating a profile of them in Arabic
• 5 collecting examples of good news or success stories related to their school, homes or local communities, for example, sporting achievements or successful fundraising, and sharing their findings in formats such as digital displays or newsletter contributions
• 6

  researching different perspectives of an issue in different media such as news, social media posts or magazines and using the information obtained in debates or persuasive texts, for example, تلوث ، اكتظاظ ، تمييز

• 7 analysing traditional Arabic folktales and fables such as حكايات جحا، حكايات عالمية قصص الشعوب and discussing the morals portrayed in these
• 8

  adapting information from a text for a different purpose, incorporating the main points, for example, information from a formal email summarised in a short text message to a parent such as عزيزتي ...أكملي الواجب في الوقت المحدد/هاي ماما عليَّ أن أكمل فرضي

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