AC9LCH10EC03 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 range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• 1 evaluating key messages in contemporary texts such as magazines, newspapers, websites or podcasts designed for Chinese-speaking high-school students, and writing a review about the content
• 2 listening to or reading texts and analysing how language conveys meaning, such as rhetorical questions, irony or sarcasm in texts, for example, 你不会真想去参加铁人三项吧？
• 3 applying understanding of news articles and other formal text types to create their own response to contemporary issues in Chinese-speaking communities, for example, 人口老龄化
• 4 listening to or reading a First Nations Australian author’ story in English, and presenting or writing a reflective personal response in Chinese
• 5 accessing a range of digital and other texts such as books, documentaries or interviews, to collate and present information about current affairs, for example, creating a multimodal presentation on recycling, education in rural communities or the impact of social media on young people
• 6 analysing and evaluating information obtained from a range of sources, including statistical data, quotations or research-based evidence, to develop an overview on matters such as public health or safety, environmental pollution, population change or rapid urbanisation
• 7 evaluating print or digital resources for reliability and referencing them appropriately, such as researching popular careers in a particular society and giving a speech to justify choice, for example, 有一篇文章中说 ... (BL) 根据2022年搜狐网上有关未来职业的一篇文章 ... (L1)
• 8 exploring how different forms of entertainment are used to express or reflect contemporary issues, for example, analysing 春晚小品 and how the topics are related to the trending events of the year
• 9 creating a simplified or a more detailed script in response to a movie such as a science-fiction story, and using terms derived from the movie in their own script, for example, 《霹雳贝贝》，《流浪地球》
• 10 identifying choices of words and phrasing that influence a reader’s response to texts, such as language to persuade the reader to endorse the writer’s views, and then applying this in their own writing, for example, 难道不是每一个有良知的人都会认同吗？

Related Achievement Standards