AC9LH8C03 – Year 7 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between 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.

Elaborations

• • gathering information from websites, newspapers or magazines about well-known people in fields such as sport, entertainment, youth culture, the arts or history to create a digital profile to present to their peers
• • collecting and presenting information, using authentic sources that report on contributions of important historical figures and moments, such as the influence of Gandhi on peace movements, the freedom struggle in India and civil rights, and different concepts such as संचार; ग़रीबी; स्वास्थ्य
• • analysing texts that report on personal, social or community activities, for example, secure blogs, social media posts or community announcements, and developing a position or viewpoint on issues of interest
• • listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories in English and responding to them in spoken or written Hindi
• • collating and summarising information that reflects Indian and/or Australian lifestyles and cultures over different times and contexts
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  comparing characters, themes, values or events represented in contemporary texts such as cartoons or video games with those conveyed in traditional fables, poems and legends, for example, referring to a playful or cheeky child as Krishna or Kahnaiyya

• • comparing style, creative effects and cultural values reflected in popular Hindi and Australian music by listening to music radio stations, reading print or online music magazines, classifying song titles or viewing clips from Bollywood films

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: