AC9LG8EU02 Year 7 Languages

AC9LG8EU02 – 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

develop knowledge of, and use structures and features of, the German grammatical and writing systems to understand and create spoken, written and multimodal texts

Elaborations

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comparing punctuation rules in English and German, for example, considering aspects for direct speech, understanding quotation marks for direct speech, understanding the meaning and use of full stops and commas in German ordinal or decimal numbers, die 8. Klasse, 9,50 Euro, 15.30 Uhr and using the German quotation marks correctly, „Hallo! Ich bin Peter.“
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applying German capitalisation rules to nouns and noticing that the capitalisation of the formal ‘you’ form Sie distinguishes it from sie ‘she/they’ form
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selecting the correct personal pronoun for ‘it’ er/sie/es/ihn for objects, for example, Woher hast du den Hut? Er ist sehr schön. Ich habe ihn bei … gekauft.
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applying sentence structure rules for verb position, including use of some modal verbs and questions, and noting that the conjugated verb will not move when subject is inverted, for example, Am Nachmittag spiele ich Tennis. Ich kann gut schwimmen. Hast du Geschwister?
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understanding how to create textual cohesion by using elements such as coordinating conjunctions, for example, und, aber, oder to link ideas and simple subordinating conjunctions, for example, weil
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recognising different registers such as the different words for ‘you’, for example, Was machst du, Peter? Was macht ihr, Kinder? Setz dich, Peter! Setzt euch Kinder! Kommen Sie bitte herein, Herr Berger!
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recognising compound words, and collecting and analysing interesting examples, noting that compound nouns take the gender of the last noun in the compound, for example, der Schulsport, die Realschule

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developing a basic knowledge of the German case system, nominative, accusative and dative, and using definite and indefinite articles, personal pronouns, and possessive adjectives such as ihr, sein, unser
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describing current and recurring actions selecting and conjugating some frequently used regular and irregular verbs, for example, Ich trinke Orangensaft, Sie isst einen Apfel

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.