AC9LCH8C03 Year 7 Languages

AC9LCH8C03 – Year 7 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in Chinese

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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.

Content Descriptor

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

Elaborations

• accessing information from a range of sources and responding with a personal action or opinion such as 每个家庭都应该回收垃圾以保护环境。
• using strategies to understand and respond to texts, for example, identifying the gist of a range of texts such as articles, conversations with familiar adults, television advertisements and documentaries, to inform self and others on topical issues, for example, 健康生活
• accessing a range of print and digital texts, such as books, web pages, documentaries, news items and interviews, to collate and present information about aspects of Chinese and Australian lifestyles, for example, creating a multimodal presentation on Chinese teenagers’ fashion and taste in music
• listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories in English and writing a summary or report in Chinese
• researching information and considering the credibility of websites, for example, using Chinese search engines to access a range of sources online and asking questions such as 这个网站看上去像正规网站吗？这个网站是官网吗?
• responding to a narrative, writing and performing a simple speech by a main character, and demonstrating empathy
• identifying differences between language use in formal interviews, speeches and everyday conversations, and replicating this in their own speeches and conversations, such as 你怎么看？你觉得呢？

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• listening to, viewing and reading a range of texts, including multimodal and digital narratives such as cartoons, films, comics, stories, poems and songs, and discussing responses to themes, messages and plot, for example, 《井底之蛙》,《铁杵磨针》
• reading a range of imaginative texts from other cultures, keeping a reading journal 读书笔记 to record understanding and their own responses, and participating in class discussions, for example, 小王子》 and 《安徒生童话选》
• comparing Chinese humour with Australian expressions of humour, such as comparing Chinese comedies with Australian comedies, and discussing personal responses

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANCHIBLLF-1Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students initiate and maintain interactions in Chinese language in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to a range of interests and experiences. They use Chinese to collaborate and problem-solve, and adjust language in response to others. They interpret information, ideas and opinions in texts. They demonstrate understanding of similarities and differences between languages, in both familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts, by adjusting and reorganising responses. They select and use vocabulary sentence structures, and expressions to create texts and apply Chinese script conventions in written texts. Students apply the conventions of spoken Chinese to develop fluency. They demonstrate understanding that spoken, written and multimodal texts use different language conventions, structures and features to convey meaning. They comment on structures and features of Chinese text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how Chinese language, culture and identity are interconnected, and compare this with their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.