AC9LC10EC04 Years 9 to 10 Languages

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

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• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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...
• • Elaboration 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

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• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration reading about topics such as regional variations in Chinese foods, and creating matching promotional material