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AC9LG8U01: Year 7 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LG8U01 Year 7 Languages

AC9LG8U01 – 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

apply knowledge of conventions of spoken German to enhance fluency, and to respond to and create texts in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

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    applying correct pitch and stress in context, such as expressing emotions and Schadenfreude, for example, Du bist gemein! Das ist ausgezeichnet! Ha, ha, er hat verloren.

  • • recognising and reproducing rhythms in complex sentences using pauses, intonation and emphasis
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    exploring the German pronunciation of a range of loan words from English and other languages, for example, Job, Restaurant, Pizza

  • • adjusting and applying intonation for statements, questions, exclamations and instructions
  • • identifying key differences and examining pronunciation variations across different German-speaking countries, regions and dialects
  • • applying pronunciation, rhythm and pace to enhance meaning, and creating effects in spoken texts such as stories, poems, songs and conversations

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANGERF10Y78
Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 8, students initiate and maintain interactions in German language in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to a range of interests and experiences. They use German to collaborate and problem-solve, and adjust language in response to others. They interpret information, ideas and opinions in texts. They demonstrate understanding of similarities and differences between languages, in both familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts, by adjusting and reorganising responses. They select and use vocabulary, sentence structures and expressions to create texts. Students apply the conventions of spoken German to develop fluency. They demonstrate understanding that spoken, written and multimodal texts use different language conventions, structures and features to convey meaning. They comment on structures and features of German text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how the German language, culture and identity are interconnected, and compare this with their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.