AC9LC8EU01
Year 7
Languages
AC9LC8EU01 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language
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 Description
recognise and use tone-syllable pronunciation and intonation patterns to form words and phrases, and Pinyin to support learning pronunciation
Elaborations
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exploring key features of Chinese phonology, examining the range of sounds and recognising how spoken syllables and tones are represented in Pinyin by spelling words in Pinyin, or reading aloud words and sentences in Pinyin with attention to pronunciation, tone and phrasing
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2
differentiating between sounds and tones when listening to or producing spoken Chinese, for example, distinguishing between 我买 and 我卖东西, or 床 and 穿
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3
recognising and discriminating between homonyms in Chinese, for example, 是 and 室, relying on contexts to assist understanding, and differentiating syllables with different tones, for example, 是 and 十
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4
performing Chinese songs and experimenting with rhythm, voice, emotion and gesture, to convey the intended sentiment, and exploring the meaning and message
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5
listening to Chinese words showing the tones on a computer, recording the same words with the same tonal sounds, and playing back the recording to check pronunciation
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