AC9LA8EC04 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.

locate and process information and ideas in familiar spoken, written and multimodal texts, responding in ways appropriate to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• 1

  listening to texts such as songs, notices or phone messages, and identifying key points of information, using intonation and keywords to assist understanding, and then creating own text, for example, recording a phone message, مرحباً، إسمي سهام، اود التكلم مع سامر بخصوص الإمتحان، أرجو الإتصال بي على الرقم ٤۰٥٦٥٦٦۷۷۷

• 2 reading a print or digital text such as a short story or article relating to familiar contexts, using pictures, key words and contextual cues to predict meaning and to assist in identifying information
• 3 obtaining and interpreting information from a source and conveying details in a different format for a different audience, for example, viewing movie session times and then writing an imagined dialogue with a friend, negotiating what to see, time, place to meet
• 4 listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories in English and responding to them in spoken or written Arabic
• 5

  locating and sequencing information used to describe people and events, for example, البنت تدرس، الولد يساعد أمه، الأب ينظف الحديقة، في الصباح أمي تحضر الفطور، في المساء أبي ينظف السيارة

• 6 demonstrating understanding of detail in a text such as viewing a menu and recommending dishes appropriate for vegetarian options, for example, لا يوجد لحمة في المعكرونة
• 7 comparing information in a number of travel advertisements to determine which holiday package would meet requirements for specific budget, timing and activities
• 8

  interviewing others using a variety of questions, and summarising information in graphs, tables or images, on topics such as favourite things, pets, family, daily routine, pop culture من لديه حيوان؟ ما نوع الموسيقى التي تحبها؟

• 9

  listening to and viewing imaginative texts such as traditional folk tales and fables and sharing opinions or feelings about characters and events, for example, أحبّ قصة علاء الدين لأنها مسلية، قصة علاء الدين مملّة لأنها قديمة أنا أحبّ دور الولد في الفيلم لأنّه شقيّ مثلي، البنت غيورة جداً، الأب في الفيلم حنون مثل أبي

• 10

  predicting words and phrases in non-verbal activities such as charades or mime, for example, هل أنت تأكل تبولة؟ كلا، هل أنت طائرة؟ عمول منيح وكب بالبحر

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