AC9LG10U03 Years 9 to 10 Languages

Content descriptor reflect on and evaluate German texts, using metalanguage to analyse language structures and features

Elaborations

• • Elaboration identifying and evaluating how grammatical choices, words and images combine in a text to achieve particular intentions and effects, for example, the positioning of the reader in advertisements by the use of personal pronouns, imperative/interrogative verb forms and emotive language and aspirational images
• • Elaboration applying knowledge of text structure and organisation and the interrelationship of context, purpose and audience to assist in comprehension of texts and in creating own texts, for example, a persuasive letter to the editor for a local newspaper, an entertaining dialogue for children or adolescents
• • Elaboration investigating contemporary imaginative texts such as in popular films, short stories, poetry or drama performances in German, using metalanguage to discuss language and features and to identify themes and issues
• • Elaboration extending understanding of metalanguage to communicate in German and English about case, verb tenses and moods, for example, Genitiv, Imperfekt, Konjunktiv II
• • Elaboration reflecting on ways in which the level of formality in a text may be decreased, such as by using contractions and slang, for example, in an informal conversation or email, or increased, by applying key features such as appropriate layout and structure, formal register and subordinate clauses
• • Elaboration recognising ways in which written language is different from spoken language, for example, in being more planned, precise, elaborated and complex, using interrelated clauses and support detail in paragraphs
• • Elaboration identifying and commenting on techniques and linguistic choices which build action, develop character and position the reader, using modelled descriptive and analytic language