AC9LC8C03 Year 7 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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 opinions in a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• 1 documenting specific details of events, customs and lifestyles presented in multimodal sources (video clips, face-to-face interviews, etc.) to summarise the information, for example, 一般来说，在华语文化中，人们每天都吃米饭
• 2 listening to, or viewing, multimodal texts (popular music videos from various sources of media, etc.) to identify key information such as names of people and places, time and date and opinions, for example, 秦始皇, 西安, 北京, 上海, 香港, 星期三, 下午两点, 我很喜欢 and expressing personal opinions such as 我觉得... , 很有意思
• 3 reading or listening to a range of genres and analysing and explaining the development of ideas or an argument, for example, reading a short article about the protection of pandas, listening to an interview with a person working with pandas and then contributing to a class blog about wildlife protection 熊猫每天吃很多竹子
• 4 listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories and responding to them in spoken or written Chinese
• 5 reading a short fictional story and writing diary entries or recording a video blog as one of the characters, incorporating their perspectives
• 6 listening to, and viewing travel-related websites, podcasts or videos to create a suggested itinerary for a school trip and using persuasive language to suggest participating in activities

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