AC9LC10EU02 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.

select and use structures and features of the Chinese grammatical and writing systems to enhance and infer meaning, and create spoken, written and multimodal texts

Elaborations

• 1 describing orthographic features of new characters encountered, including the structure, sequence and relationship of components
• 2 examining the use of diverse character-morphemes to express similar ideas, for example, identifying multiple characters for food 饭, 菜, 食, 餐 and organising and classifying words containing these characters to understand their contexts of use
• 3 discussing the use of 繁体字 and 简体字 in Chinese-speaking communities today, including the revival of 繁体字 and the spread of 简体字 in diverse communities, traditional characters encountered in their local Chinese communities, and noting their simplified character version
• 4 exploring the uses of diverse time expressions and ways to sequence events in time, for example, 先...然后..., 一...就..., ...了...就..., 才, 第一, 然后
• 5 applying ways of sequencing and connecting ideas through the use of conjunctions and cohesive devices, for example, 不但...而且…, 虽然...但是, 因为…所以..., 开始..., 后来...
• 6 comparing ways in which tense is expressed, for example, 了 to indicate completion; 完 to indicate the achievement of a desired result; 想 to indicate intention; the use of verb negation 没有 to indicate negative past; 正在 to indicate action in progress
• 7 developing ideas using nuanced structures, for example, using different ways to negate depending on degree of formality or emphasis 我不是..., 我哪儿有...？, 我没有办法..., 我不能..., 不行, 别, 不准
• 8 comparing prepositions and discussing the importance of contexts when determining their meanings in texts, for example, 跟, 对, 给
• 9 using modal adverbs, for example, 很, 更, 最, 非常, 挺...的, 太...了

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