AC9LC8U03
Year 7
Languages
AC9LC8U03 – 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
reflect on similarities and differences between Chinese and English language structures and features, using metalanguage
Elaborations
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1
identifying similarities and differences between Chinese and English word order and sentence construction such as 我明天去飞机场
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2
exploring key features of Chinese phonology by comparing with English phonetics, for example, demonstrating understanding that each character is pronounced with one syllable
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3
teaching peers, other students of Chinese or a buddy class about how Chinese works, focusing on a particular structure using metalanguage and visual supports, for example, comparing text direction in a Chinese language story book with English language and reading the story to students, indicating the direction as the story is read
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