AC9LCH10EU01 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.

demonstrate how features and conventions of spoken Chinese can extend fluency when responding to and creating texts appropriate to contexts, purposes and audiences

Elaborations

• 1 listening to interactions between unfamiliar voices at different speeds or levels of clarity to develop auditory and comprehension skills, and applying similar pronunciation to spoken texts, for example, reading a news story in a similar way to a news reporter
• 2 discriminating between unfamiliar homonyms in Chinese such as 加油（打气/补充油） and enhancing fluency by practising rap songs or stand-up comedy in Chinese
• 3

  identifying regional variation in pronunciation and/or tone across different Chinese-speaking environments, for example, 和 pronounced hé in mainland China but may be pronounced as hàn in Taiwan

• 4 experimenting with rhythm, pace, tone and stress, and developing strategies to enhance their own communication with others, for example, taking on the role of a flight attendant and saying 女士们， 先生们， 我们的航班将在几分钟后起飞 (BL) or practising formal presentations or dramatic performances, for example, 众所周知／显而易见／总而言之 (L1)
• 5 using dictionaries or digital tools to help with learning and knowing characters and pronunciation
• 6 presenting an argument in a debate, using strategies such as emphasis and persuasion in oral presentation, with a focus on fluency and audience
• 7 reading aloud a poem in different ways, using intonation, rhythm, pace, tone and stress to convey a range of meanings such as happiness, sarcasm, jealousy (BL) or quoting traditional literature, such as famous lines from poems (L1)

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