AC9LH8EC04 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.

locate and process information and ideas in familiar spoken, written and multimodal texts, responding in ways appropriate to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• 1 collecting information from print and digital sources on social or environmental issues or events, recording key facts and associated vocabulary for use in their own projects, for example, प्रदूषण एवं पर्यावरण; स्वच्छ भारत; गंगा नदी की सफ़ाई; स्वच्छ ऑस्ट्रेलिया दिवस
• 2 accessing information from resources such as posters, websites, brochures, videos and books on topics such as family life, healthy lifestyles, leisure, travel or schooling, summarising key points to use for an in-class discussion
• 3 listening to recordings of phone conversations, announcements or radio interviews, and transcribing key facts or details such as dates, times, events or locations in note form or filling in blanks from a list of options, for example, रोहन ७ जून को भारत गया था।
• 4 listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories in English and responding to them in spoken or written Hindi
• 5 listening to popular Hindi songs or viewing music videos, summarising key ideas or messages, and comparing these with songs and music videos that appeal to young people in Australia
• 6 collecting information via surveys or face-to-face conversations with friends and family members on questions related to social behaviours or trends, such as preferred modes of communication, for example, फ़ोन; ईमेल; आमने सामने बातचीत; टेक्स्टिंग, and compiling a summary of findings in a table, diagram or graph
• 7 reading or viewing imaginative texts such as fables, folktales, legendary films and re-enacting scenes that illustrate aspects of character personalities, events, or key messages
• 8 presenting a simple commentary for an event reported in the media or a sporting match, using appropriate language features and non-verbal language to capture key elements and engage the audience, for example, संगीत संगोष्ठी में बहुत लोग आये और सब ने बहुत आंनद लिया ।
• 9

  researching and studying the steps of a traditional dance or performance to present to an audience, using modelled language and exclamations, clapping and gestures, for example, bhangra, dandia

• 10 identifying how customs, traditions and beliefs are communicated through visual and performing art, for example, Bollywood movies and television programs such as अशोक सम्राट

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