AC9LC10EC04 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.

interpret information, ideas and perspectives in a wide range of spoken, written and multimodal texts and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• 1 reading tourist brochures and websites detailing lifestyles in diverse locations in Chinese-speaking communities, identifying features of local lifestyles that reflect modernity or tradition, and evaluating the information for relevance, appropriateness, and significance
• 2 documenting specific details of events, customs and lifestyles obtained from diverse sources (video clips, face-to-face interviews, etc.), and summarising the information to form a balanced view to share with others
• 3 listening to, and viewing texts (celebrity interviews, news reports, documentaries on tourist hot spots, etc.) and obtaining the gist by focusing on familiar, anticipated items in a flow of words such as names of people and places, time and date, attitude and opinions
• 4 listening to or reading a First Nations Australian’s stories and discussing their opinions and ideas, and, in Chinese, presenting their personal profile to the class
• 5 comparing how the theme of love is represented across different imaginative texts in both Chinese and English, and discussing personal responses, for example, 我觉得这个故事很像..., 我不喜欢..., 因为他..., 如果他像…,  一样，那么
• 6 identifying how media convey a sense of ‘right’ and purpose in the lives of young people and expressing own opinion such as 我觉得他是好人, 因为他帮助老人 and reactions to the situations and contexts represented, for example, 如果我是她; 我觉得他最好...
• 7 reading about topics such as healthy eating in Chinese, and creating matching promotional material, 每天吃五份蔬菜, 两份水果
• 8 listening to or watching media of adults talking about their experiences, for example, 他小时候每天都骑自行车 and presenting this information to the class, quoting the source of information 有人说, 她告诉我

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