AC9LG8U03 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.

reflect on similarities and differences between German and English language structures and features, using metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1 comparing and contrasting German and English language use in similar situations and in texts with similar content, such as advertisements or student blogs about school issues
• 2 reflecting on the interrelationship of context, purpose and audience, using knowledge of text types in German and English to predict the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary in texts, for example, analysing types of personal, informative and persuasive texts, or different samples of a particular text type, to determine the targeted audience(s), and describing the techniques and conventions
• 3 understanding and observing that texts have different purposes, for example, to persuade, to inform or to entertain different audiences such as children, young people, German speakers, people living in Australia
• 4

  extending understanding of metalanguage to communicate in German and English about case, word order, verb tenses, for example, Dativ, Wechselpräpositionen, das Perfekt, Hilfsverben, trennbare Verben

• 5

  understanding that English grammar used to be more closely aligned with German grammar, and that English has changed, for example, recognising the link between the Middle English “What thinkest thou?” and Was denkst du?

• 6 comparing German and Australian English language examples of a particular genre for cultural and stylistic differences, for example, iconic television series such as a crime series
• 7

  interpreting and evaluating textual conventions popular with young German speakers and making comparisons with their use in English, for example, the use of contractions, abbreviations and acronyms in text messages, 4u = für dich = for you, brb =bin gleich wieder da = be right back, 8ung = Achtung! sz = schreib zurück, sTn = schönen Tag noch

• 8

  describing relationships between language, structure and textual purpose, for example, in a personal text using informal register such as a thank-you email to a friend, Liebe Grüße; du; Dein(e) X and comparing this with English

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