AC9LA8EC04 Year 7 Languages

AC9LA8EC04 – Year 7 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in Arabic

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between 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.

Content Descriptor

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

Elaborations

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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
• 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
• 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
• listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories in English and responding to them in spoken or written Arabic
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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
• 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
• comparing information in a number of travel advertisements to determine which holiday package would meet requirements for specific budget, timing and activities

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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؟
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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
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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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANARA7_10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students use Arabic language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions, and recognise familiar gestures, questions and instructions in exchanges. They recognise relationships between spoken and written forms. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in Arabic or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language and modelled sentence and grammatical structures to create texts, with conventions of letter position and vowel marks in writing. Students approximate pronunciation and intonation in spoken Arabic. They demonstrate understanding that Arabic has conventions and rules for non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They comment on aspects of Arabic and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that the Arabic language is connected with culture and identity, and that this connection is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.