AC9LCH8EU03
Years 7 to 8
Languages
AC9LCH8EU03 | Years 7 to 8 Chinese: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor compare and explain similarities and differences between Chinese and English language structures and features, using familiar metalanguage
Background and first language learners · Years 7 to 10 sequence
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 7 to 8 Chinese · Background and first language learners · Years 7 to 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration discussing aspects of grammar, using metalanguage in Chinese or English, including terms such as 名词 (noun)，动词 (verb), 形容词 (adjective), 主语 (subject) and 谓语 (predicate), for example, discussing 汉语名词的复数形式是什么？
- • Elaboration comparing different ways of sequencing ideas for different audiences and purposes, for example, a blog compared with an email (BL), or an argument in a speech or essay in Chinese or English, for example, 总起-分述-总结 (L1)
- • Elaboration reading texts and choosing expressions, phrases or sentences that appeal to the reader and explaining their choices
- • Elaboration reading samples of formal texts such as informative reports or short news articles (BL) or official letters (L1), and identifying how language use compares with their own everyday speech or informal texts
- • Elaboration comparing the expression of ideas in diverse traditional and contemporary literary texts, such as the different ways in which the story of 孙悟空 is told in a cartoon (BL), film or television show (L1)
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