AC9LG6C05 Year 5 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

create and present a range of informative and imaginative spoken, written and multimodal texts using a variety of modelled sentence structures to sequence information and ideas, and conventions appropriate to text type

Elaborations

• 1

  creating a multimedia factual self-profile for a group of young German speakers or writing a blog entry for a youth website, for example, including information about Freizeit, Schule, Freunde

• 2 creating a video clip to present information or ideas to a particular audience, using empathy to consider elements which may be unfamiliar to German-speaking students, for example, a virtual tour of the school or classroom for exchange student groups that may also demonstrate that Australian students generally do not bring their school bags into the classroom
• 3 presenting about German-speaking countries and Australia, for example, population statistics and physical size, daily temperatures, types of housing, pet ownership or most popular leisure activities
• 4 producing a class print or digital poster, locating and describing, in German, a specific First Nations Country/Place location in a local or regional context, or elsewhere in Australia
• 5

  recording a multimedia presentation or writing a diary about a real or imaginary trip to a German-speaking country or region, incorporating some famous places they visited and cultural experiences, for example, Das ist eine alte Kirche in Hamburg, Hier bin ich, ich esse eine Brezel.

• 6 creating and presenting an adapted text such as a story, and presenting it to a younger audience, for example, introducing new elements such as changing the main character or the setting, adding a new character or dilemma
• 7

  role-playing characters from different areas in German-speaking communities and demonstrating regional variations in German language use, for example, in greetings such as the Swiss Grüezi and Austrian Servus, and cultural events such as Weichnachtsmarkt and Christkindlmarkt

• 8 creating and performing a new version of a familiar song or poem, for example, using secure digital tools and apps for video editing and voice recording
• 9

  inventing a board game focusing on key language and using expressions for playing games, for example, Du bist dran, Schade, Gut gemacht, Ich gewinne

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