AC9LG10EU01 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.

apply features of the German sound system, including pitch, rhythm, stress, pronunciation and intonation, and show how these are represented in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

• 1 examining the role of pronunciation, rhythm and pace in enhancing meaning and creating effects (mood, etc.) in spoken texts such as stories, poems, songs and conversations
• 2

  applying correct pitch and stress in context, for example, in exclamations or when expressing emotions and Schadenfreude, for example, Du bist gemein! Das ist ausgezeichnet! Haha, er ist an die Wand gelaufen!

• 3 listening to and/or viewing excerpts of authentic German conversations in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts, noting examples of contractions and the impact of their use
• 4 identifying key differences and examining pronunciation variations across different German-speaking communities and dialects
• 5 recognising and applying rhythms in complex sentences, using pauses and intonation to signal clause sequence and emphasis

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