AC9LCH8EU03 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.

compare and explain similarities and differences between Chinese and English language structures and features, using familiar metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1 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？
• 2 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)
• 3 reading texts and choosing expressions, phrases or sentences that appeal to the reader and explaining their choices
• 4 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
• 5 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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