AC9LC8EC03 Year 7 Languages

AC9LC8EC03 – Year 7 Languages: Interacting in Chinese

Strand

Communicating meaning in Chinese

Substrand

Interacting in Chinese

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.

Content Descriptor

engage in modelled non-verbal, spoken and written exchanges with peers to organise activities relating to daily life and school environment

Elaborations

• using online collaborative learning tools to create a rap about greetings and performing it in groups, for example, 你好吗? 我很好。你呢? 我也很好。大家好。, and using Pinyin to support the reading of characters, if required
• working with peers to produce a bilingual publicity flier for an upcoming event, for example, 汉语角, to promote Chinese learning among school community members or 垃圾回收 to introduce a new or improved recycling program at school
• planning a class sports day, discussing who prefers which sport and creating a program accordingly
• determining an agreed social activity with peers, for example, going out on the weekend or a weeknight

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANCHISL7_10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students use Chinese language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions, and recognise familiar gestures, questions and instructions in exchanges. They recognise relationships between spoken and written forms. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in Chinese or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language, and modelled sentence and grammatical structures to create texts, and demonstrate understanding of how some language reflects cultural practices. They use some familiar characters and Pinyin to support learning.Students approximate Chinese sound patterns, tones, intonation and rhythms, and recognise the function of tone-syllables and Pinyin. They demonstrate understanding that Chinese has rules for characters, grammar, non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They comment on aspects of Chinese and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that the Chinese language is connected with culture and identity, and how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.