AC9LA8EU03 Year 7 Languages

AC9LA8EU03 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding systems of language

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

compare Arabic language structures and features with English, using familiar metalanguage

Elaborations

• understanding that Arabic texts are written and read from right to left, using a cursive script
• recognising that Arabic has borrowed words from English, for example, إنترنت، كومبيوتر، تلفاز , and English has borrowed words from Arabic, such as ‘admiral’, ‘alcohol’, ‘algebra’, ‘coffee’, ‘genie’, ‘hazard’ and ‘sultan’
• comparing common text types in Arabic and English, observing similar patterns and features, for example, the opening and the signature of an email or traditional story or rhyme
• analysing how different types of texts in Arabic create specific effects through the use of different language features, for example, the use of superlatives in advertisements designed to persuade, or the use of repetition for emphasis in speeches and compare with similar text types in English
• recognising that there is no distinction between lower and upper case in Arabic, and the rules on the use of punctuation are less strict compared with English
• identifying similarities and differences in word order and syntax, for example English subject+verb+object and Arabic verb+subject+object
• noticing specific differences in Arabic sentence structure, including the absence of verbs in nominal sentences, such as verb ‘to be’ الطقس جميل، السيارة حمراء

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• building metalanguage to describe grammatical concepts by developing learning resources, for example, verb charts, vocabulary lists, and groups of pronouns, adverbs or adjectives محب، سامح، يد، لين، سامي،

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.