AC9LC8EC04
Years 7 to 8
Languages
AC9LC8EC04 | Years 7 to 8 Chinese: Mediating meaning in and between languages
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor locate and process information and ideas in familiar spoken, written and multimodal texts, responding in ways appropriate to cultural context, purpose and audience
Second language learners · Years 7 to 10 sequence
Strand
Communicating meaning in Chinese
Substrand
Mediating meaning in and between languages
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 7 to 8 Chinese · Second language learners · Years 7 to 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration reading online blogs and posting comments using supporting images in their own writing, for example, using emoticons such as >_<III to enhance meaning in digital communication
- • Elaboration representing gathered information by restating key phrases and explaining reasons for actions and feelings, for example, 她很高兴，因为
- • Elaboration summarising the findings of a class survey for an in-person presentation, or in digital or visual format, such as a poster or wall chart, for example, interviewing people about their experiences 他每天走路上学, and presenting this information to the class, quoting the source of information 老师说…
- • Elaboration listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories and responding to them in spoken or written Chinese
- • Elaboration obtaining the gist or specific information in spoken texts by focusing on familiar, predictable items in a flow of words, as well as features of voice, gesture and word choice, for example, recognising the emotion and degree of enthusiasm or dislike expressed such as 我一点儿也不喜欢… compared with 我不喜欢…
- • Elaboration researching a famous Chinese-speaking person or historical event and presenting the information in a profile or timeline
- • Elaboration reading familiar text types (shopping brochures, etc.) and understanding particular phrases such as 八折, and working out the final price with the support of online dictionaries and word lists
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- • Elaboration viewing audiovisual texts, such as a Chinese-language cooking program, and answering questions from classmates about some famous Chinese or Taiwanese dishes, for example, 古老肉, 狮子头, 柠檬鸡片, 小笼包, 盐酥鸡
- • Elaboration locating and identifying key information in written texts (advertisements, catalogues, menus, packaging, etc.) to locate key points of information in relation to elements such as product, number, price, target audience, and suitability to recycle, for example, 回收纸, 回收塑料
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