AC9LCH8EU01 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.

use tone-syllables and apply intonation, stress and phrasing to enhance fluency, and respond to and create texts in a range of contexts

Elaborations

• 1 exploring key features of Chinese phonology, examining the range of sounds and recognising how spoken syllables and tones are represented, for example, the tone of "不" and "一" can vary based on context.
• 2 recognising the value of Pinyin romanisation to assist in distinguishing differences in spoken Chinese, to generate digital texts and develop understanding of sound-symbol correspondences in characters, for example, using Pinyin input to type Chinese characters for spoken scripts
• 3 recognising and discriminating between homophones in Chinese, for example, 是 and 室, and enhancing fluency by practising tongue twisters (BL) or stand-up comedy (L1) in Chinese
• 4 identifying subtle differences in pronunciation in their own and others spoken Chinese, such as regional accents (BL)
• 5 comparing their own speech to the pronunciation and speech patterns in examples of Modern Standard Chinese, such as in news broadcasts (L1)
• 6 performing Chinese poems such as 五言绝句 (BL) or 唐诗宋词 (L1), and experimenting with rhythm, voice, emotion and gesture to convey the intended sentiment
• 7 using dictionaries or digital tools to check the correct pronunciation of unknown characters to enhance fluency
• 8 preparing a mock lesson for beginner Chinese students about Chinese phonology
• 9 preparing a speech in Chinese and practising with Chinese-speaking family members or peers (BL) or performing for a specific audience such as the local Chinese-speaking community (L1)

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