AC9LCH10EC05 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.

create and present informative and imaginative texts for diverse contexts and purposes, selecting vocabulary, expressions, sentence structures and textual features and conventions, to engage different audiences

Elaborations

• 1 creating a presentation on an issue such as the current population policy in China and comparing with alternative opinions, for example, 有人说 ... 也有人说 ... 他们都不知道 ... 所以 ...
• 2 producing multimodal presentations, using tables, maps, charts or graphs from data and statistics, to deliver information for various purposes and audiences, for example, using data and statistics about the benefits of electric cars to promote increased use in China or Australia
• 3 composing texts for events with specific purposes and audiences, for example, a presentation on a community recycling project or experiences from an exchange program (BL), and outlining common concerns or issues that may occur (L1)
• 4 reflecting on the protocols required to authentically co-create an Acknowledgement of Country/Place with a First Nations Australian, to present in Chinese to a group of Chinese-speaking visitors at a school assembly
• 5 writing a narrative account of the life of a character from a book or film, for example, 孙悟空/美猴王 (BL)
• 6 writing a biography of a significant person or character from the past or present, applying terms derived from traditional literature, for example, 世有伯乐，然后有千里马；千里马常有，而伯乐不常有。（韩愈：《杂说（四）》）(L1)
• 7 creating a Chinese voice-over for a scene from an English language sitcom or collaborating to create a drama or comedy to depict their lives and the lives of Chinese migrants in Australia
• 8 composing a script for a short play or video clip, using descriptive language to set the scene and capture the imagination of the intended audience, for example, describing a busy morning in a Chinese town to potential travellers
• 9 composing and presenting a cultural exhibition or performance for members of the local Chinese-speaking community, for example, 舞龙舞狮
• 10 experimenting with ways of expressing ideas in formal contexts, such as using objective rather than subjective language to recount events, for example, 袋鼠很多 compared with 我看到了很多袋鼠。

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