AC9LF10EC04 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 examining information obtained from different sites and sources to compare how young people are represented in the media, for example, comparing letters to the editor about young people with postings on blogs conducted by young people
• 2

  listening to, and viewing short informative texts such as documentaries or news reports, listing key words and points of information to be reused in their own newsflash or roman-photo, and considering how emphasis or perspective can reflect culture and context

• 3 conducting surveys or structured interviews with classmates or online French-speaking contacts, comparing opinions and perspectives on community or personal issues, and identifying social or cultural variations and reporting findings back to class
• 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 listening to, reading or viewing excerpts from interviews with public figures such as activists, politicians, sports stars, musicians or actors, noting how vocabulary, phrases or gestures are used to emphasise or clarify key points of information and collating new phrases and expressions
• 6 listening to popular French songs or viewing music videos and summarising key ideas or messages and comparing these with songs and music videos that appeal to young people in Australia

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