AC9LCH8EC02 Years 7 to 8 Languages

Content descriptor engage in activities that involve planning, transacting and negotiating with peers, using a range of phrases, sentences and structures and features

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• • Elaboration planning a Chinese cultural day to support cultural diversity within the school or local community, deciding on ways to promote the event, such as creating a video to share the main details of the event (BL) and explaining the reasons for the event (L1)
• • Elaboration collaborating to create displays, presentations or performances for family, friends, peers or the school community to showcase Chinese learning, such as singing a song in Chinese (BL) or reciting a poem and explaining the content and context (L1)
• • Elaboration producing bilingual versions of promotional materials to assist the Chinese community to engage with school activities such as a school fete, principal’s tour, sister-school visit or school-sustainability project
• • Elaboration making real or simulated transactions, such as purchasing goods or requesting services, bargaining on price or planning an itinerary, for example, 请问去中国上海旅行的费用可以打折吗？(BL) 如果有更优惠的价格， 我可以考虑 ...。(L1)
• • Elaboration negotiating with peers about the potential purchase of goods and services, and making decisions based on collective opinions, for example, 我喜欢那个 ... 你喜欢 ... 所以， 我们应该 ...
• • Elaboration designing an ‘ideal school’ in groups, using research (BL) and their own experiences (L1) to compare aspects of education in Australia and Chinese-speaking regions, for example, Chinese schools usually offer nap time and encourage students to practise eye exercises
• • Elaboration organising a class or school celebration such as the Spring Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival, explaining cultural practices to peers, and comparing with practices in multicultural Australian festivals

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• • Elaboration providing feedback, using metalanguage, to support peers, for example, editing each other's written or spoken texts and justifying reasons for changes
• • Elaboration creating resources to help others, such as a set of helpful hints for school, for example, getting to school or planning homework (BL) or summarising content from another learning area such as Social Science (L1)