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AC9LA8U02: Year 7 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LA8U02 Year 7 Languages

AC9LA8U02 – 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

apply understanding of grammatical structures and expressions to compose and respond to texts

Elaborations

  • applying punctuation in texts such as spacing rules, commas, full stops, colons, hyphen
  • using plural form of personal pronoun, possessive pronouns and nouns in both masculine and feminine forms, for example, هم طلابكم، رأيت إخواتكم في المدرسة

  • understanding plural subject pronouns أنتنّ، نحن، هم، هنّ، أنتم, plural verb conjugations نحن نعمل، أنتم تدرسون أنتن تلعبن and noun plurals such as masculine sound plural nouns, هم مصريون broken plurals, هذه بُيوت and feminine plurals هنّ مدرّسات
  • understanding the rules of prepositions with definite and indefinite nouns, for example, في البيتِ، على شجرةٍ

  • using سوف in addition to the present tense to express future plans, for example, سوف أدخل إلى الجامعة بعد الثانوية العامة، سوف أشتري سيّارة بعد الامتحانات

  • using interrogative words and expressions such as لمَ، هل, to ask questions and make requests, for example, لمَ تأخّرت اليوم و عندك امتحان؟ هل فهمت ما قلته لك؟ رجاءًا، أحضر البحث غداً لأنك لم تقدمه أمس، من فضلك هل تستطيع أن تقول لي كيف أذهب إلى البنك؟

  • expanding their knowledge of noun-adjective agreement, for example, معلمون ملتزمون، مدرّسات ملتزمات

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  • using comparative and superlative adjectives to compare 2 or more nouns, for example, هذا الملعب أكبر من الملعب القديم، إن مدرستنا فيها أدوات حديثة أكثر من المدارس الأخرى، بيتنا هو الأجدّ في المنطقة، سيارة أبي أقدم سيارة رأيتها في حياتي هو الولد الأصغر في العائلة

  • using a variety of adverbs of time, place, frequency and manner, for example, إِطْلاقَا، أحياناَ، أبداَ، غالباَ، نادراَ ما

  • using conjunctions بينما to make comparisons between people or actions and to link sentences, for example, ،كذلك كامل صديق ودود بينما مازن شخص غيّور، أمل تلعب التنس بينما علياء تسبح بمهارة، لكن

  • expanding their understanding of ordinal numbers to count hours, minutes and seconds, for example, am – صباحاَ pm – مساءاَ الساعة الخامسة وعشر دقائق وعشرون ثانية مساءً

  • using the ordinal and cardinal numbers from 3 to 10 with gender-noun agreement خمسة أقلام، خمس ساعات ، ثلاث طالبات، ثلاثة طلاب

  • representing Arabic script digitally in texts, using an Arabic keyboard or tools

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANARAF10Y78
Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 8, students initiate and maintain interactions in Arabic language in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to a range of interests and experiences. They use Arabic to collaborate and problem-solve, and adjust language in response to others. They interpret information, ideas and opinions in texts. They demonstrate understanding of similarities and differences between languages, in both familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts, by adjusting and reorganising responses. They select and use vocabulary, sentence structures, and expressions to create texts. Students apply the conventions of spoken Arabic to develop fluency. They demonstrate understanding that spoken, written and multimodal texts use different language conventions, structures and features to convey meaning. They comment on structures and features of Arabic text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how the Arabic language, culture and identity are interconnected, and compare this with their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.