AC9LG8C03 Year 7 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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 opinions in a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• 1 locating and interpreting key information in informative and persuasive texts, for example, creating a summary table, locating key information and supporting details of a text and the author’s implied meaning
• 2

  analysing and summarising information and viewpoints, for example, information from a news report about social media, a documentary on early German settlement in Australia, or an interview with an older person who speaks German on the topic of their Kindheit und Jugend, using tools such as guided note-taking, timelines and/or concept maps

• 3

  listening to or reading about issues that concern young people such as Schule und Freunde, Soziale Medien, Jugendkultur, and sharing opinions and feelings

• 4 listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories in English and responding to them in spoken or written German
• 5

  gathering information from appropriate sources such as a class survey, video or interviews about a topic of interest, and reporting about the information, reflecting on their own opinion, for example, Schuluniform, beste Lebensorte, Lieblingsfreizeitsaktivitäten

• 6 listening to or viewing digital and other texts such as songs, raps, or film and video clips, noticing ideas, comparing aspects that may be similar or different across cultures, and making connections with own experiences
• 7 identifying differences in register, purpose and audience when using language in different contexts, for example, language in songs and graffiti, an online article, email to the teacher, interview or essay
• 8

  collecting information on topics related to lifestyle choices, explaining changes in focus and perspective over different periods, for example, Rauchen oder nicht?

• 9

  investigating and reporting on evidence of current and historical influences of German-speaking communities’ language and culture in the local and broader community of Australia, for example, place names such as Heidelberg, Hahndorf, Leichhardt; food such as restaurants or bakeries; festivals and celebrations such as film festivals, community festivals, Weihnachtsmärkte, and organisations such as language learning institutes, community schools and German radio stations

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