AC9LG8EC04 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.

locate and process information and ideas in familiar spoken, written and multimodal texts, responding in ways appropriate to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• 1 identifying key expressions and detail in conversations and announcements, and using information in new ways, for example, listening to an interview with a German-speaking person about family and completing a family tree
• 2 reading, viewing and responding to a range of simple texts such as promotional brochures, signs and websites, to obtain and compile information about places, lifestyles and events, for example, information related to homes, schools, leisure activities, climate and geography
• 3 locating, collecting, classifying and summarising information from notices, timetables, interviews and announcements, and presenting findings to others, for example, a digital visual presentation, poster or wall chart
• 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 informative texts about people, time and activities in German-speaking communities, and using the information, for example, creating a profile or timetable/timeline to show a sequence of activities/events
• 6 presenting the results of a class survey, for example, creating graphs and/or writing statements to report findings on topics such as the range of leisure activities undertaken by classmates, favourite games, television series, food, music, pets, or amount of time spent on devices
• 7 engaging with imaginative texts by responding to questions about characters, events and ideas, for example, producing a profile of a character or a timeline of the main events
• 8

  selecting images to illustrate a text, and explaining why qualities such as colour, a symbol or emoticon reflect the content or mood, and affect choice, for example, Er ist sauer. Das Lied ist optimistisch/aggressiv.

• 9 transforming a simple text into another text type, and applying the key features and conventions of the second text type, for example, changing a diary entry to a secure online blog
• 10

  responding to an imaginative text in various ways, for example, giving opinions about the characters and expressing reactions to the text, Ich sehe ein Mädchen. Ich finde das Mädchen sehr lustig, Das Ende ist traurig.

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