AC9LA8U03 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.

reflect on similarities and differences between Arabic and English language structures and features, using metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1 examining how the structures and features of a variety of informative Arabic and English texts, including online and digital texts, such as reports and articles, reflect their intended purpose and how the choice of vocabulary reflects ideas and perspectives
• 2 continuing to build metalanguage in Arabic and English to discuss and describe grammatical concepts and to organise learning resources such as verb charts, vocabulary lists, groups of pronouns, adverbs and adjectives
• 3 comparing Arabic and English sentence structure, word order and different types of sentences such as nominal and verbal sentences and highlighting particular parts of speech to demonstrate understanding
• 4 comparing Arabic and English text types such as horoscopes, prayers or weather forecasts, explaining the choice of particular language, devices and text organisation
• 5 teaching younger students or Arabic learners about some key differences between Arabic and English language, using a variety of terms and support resources such as flash cards, diagrams, charts or tables
• 6 reflecting on the use of new colloquial or abbreviated Arabic language in technology and social media, and the use of words borrowed from English in Arabic such as الفيس بوك، التويتر
• 7 analysing how texts in both Arabic and English create specific effects by using particular aspects of language such as superlative adjectives and imperative verb forms, in advertisements designed to persuade customers
• 8 understanding the role and the difference between Arabic and English prepositions and cohesive devices, for example, I’m on the bus, أنا في الحافلة , I ate an apple, a lemon and a carrot, أكلت التفاح والليمون والجزر on Sunday يوم الأحد

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