AC9LCH10C03 Year 9 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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.

analyse and evaluate information, ideas and perspectives in a broad range of spoken, written and multimodal texts and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• 1 analysing the effectiveness of actions and evaluate against their own perspectives on current issues such as environmental protection or recycling, for example, 我认为我们的家垃圾回收还需要在以下几个方面多加改进。
• 2 using various communicative strategies such as public speaking, debating or negotiating to respond to a variety of text types or topics, for example, 虎妈教育的利与弊
• 3 accessing a range of formal text types such as emergency evacuation procedures at school, school uniform or excursion policies and developing specific, formal documents in Chinese to suit the needs of their own school or community
• 4 listening to or reading First Nations Australian author’s stories and, in Chinese, writing and/or presenting a reflective personal response
• 5 researching a range of resources, evaluating their validity, reliability and credibility, gathering information and citing references in Chinese, for example, asking questions such as 这组数据虽然来自 ... 官方网站，但是年份太久远，所以 ...
• 6 role-playing a modified scene from a Chinese movie, drama or story in groups to improve fluency and demonstrating cultural knowledge
• 7 analysing key elements of language used in successful interviews, applying strategies in simulated scenarios, and evaluating each other’s performance
• 8 analysing the plots and personalities of key characters in a story, and recreating or extending the story, for example, 请为井底之蛙的故事写一个续集。
• 9 reading extracts or modified versions of traditional Chinese literature such as plays, poems, novels or prose, and writing reflective responses 读后感 to share with peers

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