AC9LA8U01 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.

apply knowledge of conventions of spoken Arabic to enhance fluency, and to respond to and create texts in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

• 1 distinguishing the sounds of Arabic letters that use dots such as ب، ت، ث or ج، ح، خ، د، ذ، ر، ز، ص، ض , to increase clarity of pronunciation and fluency
• 2 recognising features of the Arabic sound system, discriminating use of tones, rhythm and sound flow, using grammatical knowledge such as roots and إضافة to help predict the meaning of new words
• 3 experimenting with rhythm, voice, emotion and gesture to enhance a performance by conveying the intended sentiment and meaning of songs and rhymes
• 4 using prior knowledge of the Arabic sound system to predict spelling of new and unfamiliar words or transcribing spoken texts such as poems or dialogues
• 5 estimating the sound and meaning of words based on their understanding of the root system and linking them in an organised pattern, for example, دَرَسَ/مَدرسة
• 6 listening to short interactions with unfamiliar voices, different speed, pace and clarity to develop auditory and comprehension skills, including discriminating between the range of vowel and consonant combinations such as التنوين و الشدة والمد , for example, / قرأت كتاباً شيقاً أمل / آمال، دعوة/ دعوى

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