AC9LG8C05 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.

create and present spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts for specific purposes, selecting vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures, features and conventions appropriate to text type and context

Elaborations

• 1 creating and presenting informative texts for a specific purpose and audience, such as to advertise a social event in the local community or organising and presenting information to raise awareness, for example, a video advertisement, a recycling infographic, or a poster for an environmental campaign
• 2 explaining a procedure or activity using simple language and supporting graphics, materials and gestures, for example, how to play a game or sport, a cooking show segment, or fashion tips
• 3

  presenting information and ideas using language appropriate to text type and context, for example, using reflective language in diary and journal entries, persuasive language in advertisements, or music lyrics and punchlines to engage with controversial ideas or provoke reactions

• 4 creating a print or digital poster in German to promote travel to a significant cultural location on a First Nations Country/Place, including what to see and do
• 5

  creating an imaginative text such as a picture storybook, puppet play, short film, song or poem, with particular themes or for imagined occasions, to entertain an audience, for example, Elfchen, a string poem or Konkrete Poesie, creating the next scene, a new character or an alternative ending for imaginative texts such as a story, drama or film script

• 6 creating an imaginative interaction incorporating communicative styles and social behaviours observed in German texts, for example, a digital persona or avatar in a German-speaking fantasy world or imagining they are the ‘characters’ in a painting and creating a scenario and dialogue
• 7 describing an imagined experience using a familiar text type, for example, a diary entry describing the first day as an exchange student in a German school, or a guide for a great birthday party
• 8 reviewing a film, computer game, novel or performance for a radio segment or for a friend

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