AC9LC8EC04 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.

locate and process information and ideas in familiar spoken, written and multimodal texts, responding in ways appropriate to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• 1 reading online blogs and posting comments using supporting images in their own writing, for example, using emoticons such as >_
• 2 representing gathered information by restating key phrases and explaining reasons for actions and feelings, for example, 她很高兴，因为
• 3 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…
• 4 listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories and responding to them in spoken or written Chinese
• 5 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…
• 6 researching a famous Chinese-speaking person or historical event and presenting the information in a profile or timeline
• 7 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
• 8 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
• 9 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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