AC9LC8C03 Years 7 to 8 Languages

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

Elaborations

• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories and responding to them in spoken or written Chinese
• • Elaboration reading a short fictional story and writing diary entries or recording a video blog as one of the characters, incorporating their perspectives
• • Elaboration 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