AC9LG8EU01 Year 7 Languages

AC9LG8EU01 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding systems of language

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.

Content Descriptor

recognise and use features of the German sound system, including pitch, rhythm, stress, pronunciation and intonation, and demonstrate understanding of how these are represented in familiar contexts

Elaborations

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practising pronunciation of particular sounds, rhythms and intonation patterns, for example, saying tongue twisters, rhymes and short poems such as Fischers Fritze fischt frische Fische, Acht alte Ameisen, Klein aber fein! Eins, zwei, Polizei
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identifying differences in intonation and rhythm between statements, questions, interjections and commands, for example, Du trinkst Wasser. Du trinkst Wasser? Du trinkst Wasser! Du, trink Wasser!
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comparing pronunciation and variation in some letters, for example, singing das Alphabetlied, and using the alphabet to spell German names and other words
• understanding that pronunciation may vary across different German-speaking communities and dialects
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recognising that loan words in German may differ in pronunciation or follow pronunciation patterns for other languages, for example, Handy, orange, Friseur, Restaurant
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developing an awareness of letter–sound relationships, including distinctive sounds such as those represented by the letters ch, r, th, u and z and consonant blends and clusters such as sch
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comparing and applying German sounds, such as short and long vowel sounds, and diphthongs, such as au, ei, eu and ie, and the impact of the Umlaut on a, o and u, and the double ss sound for ß

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANGER7_10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students use German language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions, and recognise familiar gestures, questions and instructions in exchanges. They recognise relationships between spoken and written forms. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in German or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language, and modelled sentence and grammatical structures to create texts. Students approximate pronunciation and intonation in spoken German. They demonstrate understanding that German has conventions and rules for non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They comment on aspects of German and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that the German language is connected with culture and identity, and that this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.