AC9LC10EC04 Year 9 Languages

AC9LC10EC04 – Year 9 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in Chinese

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between 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.

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

Elaborations

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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...
• 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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• 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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANCHISL7_10Y910

Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students initiate and sustain Chinese language to exchange and compare ideas and experiences about their own and others’ personal world. They communicate using non-verbal, spoken and written language to collaborate, plan and reflect on activities and events. They interpret and analyse information and ideas in texts and demonstrate understanding of different perspectives. They synthesise information and respond in Chinese or English, adjusting language to convey meaning and to suit context, purpose and audience. They use structures and features of spoken and written Chinese to create texts. They use familiar characters appropriate to context and Pinyin to transcribe spoken texts.Students apply features of the Chinese sound system to enhance fluency, and discern differences in patterns of sound and tone in spoken language. They demonstrate understanding of the sound system in spoken exchanges and characters for written texts, and select and use sentence and grammatical structures to interact, make meaning and create texts. They support discussion of structures and features of texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own language use and cultural identity, and draw on their experience of learning Chinese, to discuss how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.