AC9LCH8U03 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.

reflect on and explain similarities and differences between Chinese and English language structures and features, using metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1 extending understanding of metalanguage about a range of textual features in Chinese and English, such as paragraphs, using conjunctions to sequence and link ideas for cohesion, for example, 总而言之
• 2 identifying and comparing language features in Chinese and English texts, for example, the use of first-person point of view and descriptive and emotive language in personal recounts and diary entries
• 3 teaching younger students about some key differences between Chinese and English language, using support resources such as flash cards, diagrams, charts and tables
• 4 applying understanding of key features of familiar types of Chinese and English texts to understand unfamiliar content, for example, in print and digital public announcements, commercials, advertisements or itineraries
• 5 exploring the way content is developed in different types of texts in Chinese and English, and how ideas and information are structured, for example, identifying headings, paragraphs, topic sentences, elaborations and topic/idea shifts
• 6 reading samples of formal texts such as informative reports or short news articles, and identifying how the language compares with their own everyday speech
• 7 exploring metaphorical and literal meaning in Chinese and English texts, for example, 她的脸红得像苹果一样。

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