AC9LA8C05 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.

create and present spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts for specific purposes, selecting vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures, features and conventions appropriate to text type and context

Elaborations

• 1

  organising information and presenting it to an Arabic-speaking audience, for example, creating a visual presentation comparing cultural aspects of life at school and at home for an audience of school-aged Arabic speakers or a video recording of a cooking demonstration for their classmates, for example, قالب الحلوى، أولاً: سوف نعرض عليكم طريقة صنع

• 2

  producing texts about Arabic community events in print or multimedia formats, such as an advertisement to promote a concert or festival or a flyer for an interview with an Arabic-speaking guest on a community radio station, for example, تعال إلى الحفلة الموسيقية، ستكون ممتعة لجميع أفراد العائلة

• 3 writing and performing a play, cultural demonstration, skit or song for a school or community concert or assembly, using Arabic for the performance and English for supporting explanations, subtitles and commentary, for example, the first day at a new school, participating in a festival, appearing on a reality television show
• 4 creating a print or digital poster in Arabic to promote travel to a significant cultural location on a First Nations Country/Place, including what to see and do
• 5

  reporting on and comparing own and others’ experiences of events and activities such as a school camp, for example, بالنسبة لي، الرحلة كانت ممتعة بينما غالبية تلاميذ الصف شعروا بالملل، بالرّغم من الساعات الطويلة التي قضيناها في الطريق، إلا أنني لم أشعر بالتعب لكنّ أصدقائي كانوا متعبين جداً

• 6 creating modified versions of traditional Arabic stories and films, such as علاء الدين والمصباح السّحري, by introducing new characters or scenes or alternative endings
• 7

  creating a short film about social interactions among different speakers of Arabic, explaining cultural elements that may vary in different parts of the Arabic-speaking world and which may be unfamiliar to viewers, for example, التحية والسلام، العناق، القبلات، التعبيرات عند اللقاء (كيف حالك؟ ازيك؟ ايش لونك؟ كيفك؟ شاكو ماكو)، اختلاف طريقة السلام بين الجنسين.

• 8

  animating their own imaginative fables, picture books, stories or cartoons in Arabic with morals and values to present to younger audiences, using language devices and themes to engage and excite, for example, شعرها أسود كالليل الكلب قال: ووووو ضميري يعذبني

• 9 composing bilingual menus, recipes or programs for Arabic-themed events, with key information in Arabic and explanatory footnotes or glossaries in English, for class parties, cooking sessions, cultural celebrations, for example, steps to make فلافل، كشري، كبسة، مقلوبة
• 10

  using digital tools to create a slideshow with an audio track about a planned trip to an Arabic-speaking country, including famous places to visit, cultural events to attend and foods to eat, for example, مهرجان الأرز في لبنان، زيارة إلى قلعة بعلبك، مهرجان جرش في الأردن

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