AC9LCH8EC03 Year 7 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.

locate and process information and ideas in a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, responding in ways appropriate to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• 1 listening for key facts in spoken or recorded texts such as phone messages, announcements or discussions and using note-taking strategies in Chinese or English, for example, writing minutes of group discussions (BL) or notes during a debate (L1)
• 2 listening to official broadcasts such as a weather forecasts or traffic advice (BL) or severe weather warnings or evacuation orders (L1), and identifying key points of information
• 3 accessing information related to understanding their own experiences as Chinese students in Australia by searching digital media, using both Chinese and Australian search engines, to develop advice and support for new students arriving at their school
• 4 listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories in English and taking notes of the key details in Chinese (BL) or writing a summary or report in Chinese (L1)
• 5 gathering information about aspects of Chinese-speaking regions, such as weather, local industry and daily life, and using the information in new ways, for example, creating a poster or multimodal presentation about an area to promote as a travel destination (BL) or introducing an aspect of unique culture found at a travel destination (L1)
• 6 accessing a range of digital and other texts, such as webpages and short video clips, to collate and present information about aspects of Chinese and Australian lifestyles, for example, researching Chinese teenagers’ fashion (BL) or social media in China and Australia (L1), and preparing notes for a discussion
• 7 evaluating possible print or digital resources before undertaking a research project, and choosing the most suitable sources, 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?
• 8 viewing extracts of texts from various sources such as social media or traditional literature and expressing personal opinions on aspects of the text, for example, commenting on the style of a music video clip (BL) or discussing the humour used in a comedy sketch, or symbolism in traditional literature (L1)
• 9 reading a range of imaginative texts, keeping a reading journal 读书笔记 to record understanding and their own responses, and participating in class discussions about texts such as 《乌鸦喝水》(BL)《安徒生童话选》(L1)

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