AC9LCH8U01 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 develop fluency, and respond to and create texts in a range of contexts

Elaborations

• 1 listening to short interactions between unfamiliar voices at diverse speeds or levels of clarity, to develop auditory and comprehension skills
• 2

  developing tone discrimination and identifying subtle differences in pronunciation, including variations in regional accents, for example, distinguishing between qing and qin, lou and rou, liang and lan, shi and si, and lan and nan, fu and hu when listening to interactions

• 3 differentiating pronunciation changes with 多音字, for example, 两行字, 自行车
• 4 comparing their own Chinese speech patterns with Chinese pronunciation, and making adjustments to their pronunciation, intonation, stress and fluency
• 5 practising ways in which tone varies according to setting and context, for example, saying the same sentence in different tones to change the meaning, such as being friendly/unfriendly, respectful/ironic and sincere/sarcastic
• 6 noticing and describing differences in accent when listening to Chinese speakers from diverse regions

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