AC9LC10C05 Year 9 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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.

create and present informative and imaginative texts for diverse contexts and purposes, selecting vocabulary, expressions, sentence structures and textual features and conventions to engage different audiences

Elaborations

• 1 using appropriate digital tools, and producing cartoon scripts to express traditional Chinese values, for example, 孔融让梨 and 愚公移山 or presenting a voice-over for a segment from a familiar television show or commentating a youth sporting event
• 2 creating plays with plots that reflect personal opinions on topics of interest such as 旅行, 未来, using props to support storytelling, and experimenting with language, image and sound to convey complex ideas and enhance audience appreciation
• 3 composing a range of informative texts, using a variety of formats for different contexts, purposes and audiences, for example, writing a speech to welcome a class of Chinese-speaking students who are being met online in a class activity or writing an email to a Chinese-speaking friend about something that has recently occurred
• 4 writing a journal entry, or contributing to a school newsletter in Chinese reflecting on the impact of a visit to a significant cultural location on a First Nations Country/Place, and, with permission, referring to cultural knowledge of the site
• 5 creating visual displays of data or information gathered from personal research or overseas trips to share with peers on features of lifestyle or experiences of Chinese-speaking youth, for example, educational opportunities, outdoor and sporting activities across the seasons, or a typical weekend for a teenager in different Chinese-speaking countries/ regions such as Singapore, Taiwan or Hong Kong or different areas within Mainland China
• 6 using descriptive language to set the scene and capture the reader’s imagination, for example, describing the sound of traffic and the atmosphere of a busy morning in a Chinese town 车水马龙, 人来人往, 人山人海

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