AC9LH10C05 Year 9 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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 and present informative and imaginative texts for diverse contexts and purposes, selecting vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures and a range of features and conventions to engage different audiences

Elaborations

• 1 creating spoken, written, and multimodal texts, such as digital profiles, timelines or journals, to describe significant milestones in their lives, influential people, events or experiences that have helped shape their sense of identity
• 2 creating texts to inform others or encourage them to take action such as secure blog posts, reports, or items for the school newsletters that address social and environmental issues such as पर्यावरण परिवर्तन; बेरोजगारी; दान–पुण्य की गतिविधियाँ
• 3 creating bilingual material to share with the local Hindi-speaking community or visitors, relating to the local environment such as bush fire plans, protecting the local ecosystem, flora and fauna, recycling programs, community groups and activities
• 4 writing a journal entry, or contributing to a school newsletter in Hindi reflecting on the impact of a visit to a significant cultural location on a First Nations Country/Place, and, with permission, referring to cultural knowledge of the site
• 5 writing a review or creating a commentary of traditional games, for example, कबड्डी or खो-खो, sports or an event such as an India-Australia cricket match, music festival or fashion show, incorporating expressions and style that characterise these text genres
• 6 presenting information in the form of promotional or persuasive letters or speeches for different audiences in order to argue a case or establish a position on an issue, for example, प्रदूषण के प्रभाव, पढ़ाई और मनोरंजन में तालमेल, पौष्टिक आहार और स्वास्थ्य
• 7 using research collected online or from published interviews to create a digital profile of a significant member of their local community or of the wider Hindi-speaking world such as a musician, chef, artist or sporting figure
• 8 using a range of literary devices to enhance texts, express ideas, convey meaning, and highlight important themes, such as simile, metaphor and onomatopoeia, for example, कदमों की आहट, चाँद जैसा चेहरा, मछली सी आँखें
• 9 composing and performing poems or songs that incorporate elements of traditional or contemporary literary and musical forms that reflect their own experiences, for example, भक्ति or वीर गाथा verse
• 10 designing websites, posters or presentations that reflect the challenges and benefits associated with the experience of learning and using Hindi in the school and wider community context, for example, मैं बहुत अच्छी हिंदी बोल लेता हूँ, मगर लिखते समय लिंग संबंधी अनेक गलतियाँ होती हैं l हिंदी सीख जाने से मैं अपने दादा-दादी के साथ अच्छी तरह से बातचीत कर पाऊँगी। हिंदी सीखना मुश्किल लग रहा है मगर दिलचस्प बात यह है कि अब मैं हिन्दी फ़िल्मों का पहले से अधिक आनंद ले रही हूँl

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