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AC9LH10U02: Year 9 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LH10U02 Year 9 Languages

AC9LH10U02 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

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.

Content Descriptor

apply knowledge of grammatical structures to predict meaning and compose texts that contain some complex structures and ideas

Elaborations

  • using punctuation such as commas, semicolons, dash, hyphen and quotation marks to create sense, clarity and stress in sentences and structure, and organise typed Hindi texts
  • using transliteration techniques to represent Hindi script digitally, and analysing the variations in written and typed representations of Hindi script
  • using a range of tenses in complex sentences to move between events and personal experiences across time, for example, पिछले वर्ष जैसे हमने होली का त्योहार मनाया था, उसी प्रकार इस वर्ष भी हम होली का त्योहार धूमधाम से मनाएँगे।
  • using a range of adverbs of manner, degree and negation, for example, बहुत ज़्यादा, थोड़ा,ख़ुशी से, धीरे-धीरे, जल्दी में, नहीं, कभी नहीं
  • using a variety of conjunctions to link ideas and create complex sentences, for example, मैं पहले दिल्ली जाऊँगा और अपना काम पूरा करने के बाद कोलकता पहुँचूँगा।
  • extending knowledge of text cohesion and joining (सन्धि) rules, for example, word ending in अ plus word starting in उ becomes the सन्धि sound ओ as in पूर्वोत्तर. आ+ओ=औ, क्+द्=ग्
  • using the active and passive voice to establish distinctions of agency, for example, राम उर्दू लिख रहा है।, उर्दू लिखी जा रही है ।
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  • understanding the function and use of case (कारक), for example, ने, को, से, के लिए, में, पर
  • using participles (पदबंध): डूबती हुई नाव – imperfect, डूबी हुई नाव – perfect, रोते हुए, लिखते हुए – adverbial present, वह लड़की का हाथ पकड़े हुए था, वाला – adverbial past, सब्जी वाला, डिब्बे वाला – as participle
  • understanding and using idiomatic expressions such as अपने मुँह मियाँ मिट्ठू बनने वाले को समाज में इज्जत नहीं मिलती
  • understanding how compound words are formed in Arabic and Persian and used in Hindi, for example, in the film title मुग़ल- ए- आज़म

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANHINF10Y910
Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 10, students contribute to and extend interactions in Hindi language in increasingly unfamiliar contexts related to a wide range of interests and issues. They interpret texts by evaluating and synthesising information, ideas and perspectives. They show understanding of how features of language can be used to influence audience response. They create texts, selecting and manipulating language for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. They apply and use complex sentences and structures to create and respond to spoken and written texts. They use a variety of tenses to sequence events and use language features to enhance meaning and cohesion. Students incorporate the features and conventions of spoken Hindi to extend fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the conventions of spoken and written texts and the connections between them. They apply knowledge of language structures and features to make and predict meaning. They support analysis of Hindi texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own cultural perspectives and identity, and draw on their experience of learning Hindi, to evaluate how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.