AC9LG8EC06 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 spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts using appropriate vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures, and some textual conventions

Elaborations

• 1 presenting information in different formats for different audiences, for example, using informative text to write an email to a penpal in a German-speaking country or introduce a new student to the class, and using persuasive text to create an advertisement for an event or present statistics related to German-speaking countries and regions
• 2 using different modes of presentation to report on events in their personal worlds or people or places related to German-speaking communities, for example, a multimedia presentation or podcast, a flyer about a community event or digital travel itinerary
• 3

  compiling a list of questions and conducting an interview, for example, interviewing a German-speaking visitor about family, home, interests and abilities, and presenting the responses in Steckbrief format, podcast or newsletter

• 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 and telling a narrative or description from a stimulus such as a photograph, and using secure digital tools to create speech bubbles, voice recordings, subtitles or captions to accompany visuals
• 6 creating and performing a short play or video clip to share with and entertain others, incorporating actions and props to enhance meaning and to entertain, for example, a song or role-play at a school assembly or open day for younger students
• 7 composing and participating in imaginary interactions, for example, a conversation between avatars or meeting a character from a German story or film for the first time
• 8

  designing and making bilingual texts or signs for specific audiences, noticing how meaning needs to be tailored to audience and cultural perspectives, for example, a big book or game for young learners of German, school signage such as Sporthalle, Bibliothek/ Bücherei

• 9 presenting class information to German-speaking students, explaining cultural backgrounds, languages used in the home, interests and values, and using resources such as photos, captions, quotes and symbols

Related Achievement Standards