AC9LF10C03 Year 9 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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.

evaluate and synthesise information, ideas and perspectives in a broad range of spoken, written and multimodal texts and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• 1 summarising information from spoken, written or visual texts that reflect different aspects of culture related to topics such as entertainment, special occasions, health and lifestyle or fashion
• 2

  comparing lyrics, themes and styles of popular French and English language songs, and tracking similarities and differences in ideas, referring to Eurovision, Victoires de la Musique/ARIA

• 3 listening to, reading, viewing extracts from expressive contemporary texts (tales, poems, songs, dance, street art, performances, including influences from minority groups and subcultures, etc.) and identifying and comparing elements of cultural traditions in Australia and the French-speaking world
• 4 listening to or reading a First Nations Australian’s stories and discussing their opinions and ideas, and, in French, presenting their personal profile to the class
• 5 obtaining information from a range of texts, including television weather reports, interviews and digital video clips and summarising main points and presenting key information in their own words
• 6

  exploring how texts achieve different effects such as moving from generic terms les fleurs, to specific terms les violettes, les jonquilles for desired effect

• 7 summarising the key points from a range of texts such as media texts and interviews
• 8 identifying underlying values, cultural references of different texts such as an advertisement or article, and evaluating the effect on audience
• 9 evaluating language techniques (humour, imagery, hyperbole, etc.) used in contemporary drama, television programs, film and poetry

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