AC9LA10EU01 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.

apply features of the Arabic sound system, including pitch, rhythm, stress, pronunciation and intonation, and show how these are represented in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

• 1 pronouncing الشدة and السكون
• 2 applying prior knowledge of pronunciation and sound conventions to predict spelling and sound of unfamiliar words during class dictation, reading aloud or transcribing
• 3 using the rhythms of the Arabic language, including intonation, tone and stress, to increase fluency and enhance expression
• 4 recognising the need for pauses or changes of tone in complex sentences with embedded clauses
• 5 listening to a range of audio texts at various speeds such as phone messages and announcements, to develop strategies and techniques to infer meaning
• 6 noticing how intonation and tone of voice can convey emotions and shade meaning, such as distinguishing between colloquial or formal language, for example, حقًا؟ يا إلهي! تعال إلى هنا حالاً
• 7

  using onomatopoeia in sentences for literary effect in texts such as comics and stories, for example, بوم بوم! أسمع أصوات الألعاب النارية في ليلة رأس السنة...

• 8

  reciting difficult tongue twisters or making their own, to improve pronunciation, fluency and pace, for example, روحي وروحك يا روحي روحين بروح مطرح متروح روحك روحي بتروح قفص قصب في قفص خشب

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