AC9LCH10U02 Years 9 to 10 Languages

Content descriptor apply knowledge of character form and function, and complex grammatical structures and features, to predict meaning and to compose a wide range of texts

Elaborations

• • Elaboration using knowledge of components to look up new characters in print dictionaries and using the characters in their own writing
• • Elaboration exploring the changes of meaning for the same characters in different contexts and using them in their own expression, for example, 你这是什么意思？ 这是我的一点小意思。
• • Elaboration predicting meanings of complex characters, using knowledge of pictographs, for example, 鬣, 鳜, 鲷, 麋
• • Elaboration determining the precise meanings of character morphemes by referring to the context, for example, 一封信 and 相信, 企图 and 地图
• • Elaboration applying knowledge of characters and functions to compose a wide range of texts, for example, 山水, 山山水水, 山清水秀
• • Elaboration applying knowledge of punctuation in a range of complex texts, for example, using the double-angle quotation marks《》, inverted commas for sarcasm, brackets for further explanations and ellipses to indicate hesitation
• • Elaboration applying knowledge of characters with multiple meanings, modal verbs and auxiliary verbs, in a range of texts

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• • Elaboration applying knowledge of tense in Chinese, in a variety of formal or informal text types, for a range of audiences and purposes, for example, reports, plans and diaries
• • Elaboration responding appropriately to a range of stimuli with different purposes such as sarcasm, exclamatory sentences or factor statements, for example, 您过奖了!
• • Elaboration identifying how various sentence structures are used to convey messages effectively, and responding to a range of stimuli such as a television program or a radio talk show, using complex sentence structures
• • Elaboration comparing known simplified characters with traditional characters and discussing differences