AC9LH8EU02
Year 7
Languages
AC9LH8EU02 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language
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.
Content Descriptor
develop knowledge of the Devanāgarī script and use structures and features of the Hindi grammatical and writing systems to understand and create spoken, written and multimodal texts
Elaborations
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reading and writing Devanāgarī script with the Hindi Varnmala chart as support, and using some punctuation such as capital letters, commas and full stops
- • learning how the under-dotted characters क़, ख़, ग़, ज़, फ़ are used to represent loan sounds from other languages such as Arabic, English, Persian, Portuguese and Turkish
- • recognising and understanding the writing of half-consonant letters and using them to form words and simple sentences, such as, क्, च्, ज्, for example, बच्चा, कच्चा, अच्छा, मक्खी, राज्य, कद्दु, आज दिन बहुत अच्छा है
- • identifying and using pronouns for people, places and objects in singular and plural forms, for example, मैं, हम, यह, ये, यह, वह तुम, तू, आप, मैं, मेरा, तुम्हारा, यहाँ, वहाँ ।
- • learning the structure of declarative and interrogative verb forms, for example, composing simple statements and questions based on models such as तुम मेरे साथ चलो। तुम कैसे हो?
- • understanding that verbs change according to gender, number and tense, for example, लड़का गाता है। लड़की गाती है। लड़के गाते हैं।, गया था, जाऊँगा, जा रहा हूँ, खाया था, खा रहा हूँ, खाऊँगा
- • using adjectives to describe characteristics or qualities of a person or object, such as nationality, shape or colour, and noticing that they change with gender and number, for example, छोटा लड़का, छोटी लड़की, छोटे लड़के, छोटे लड़के को, छोटे लड़कों को
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- • using possessive adjectives to express ownership, for example, मेरी पुस्तक, तुम्हारा बस्ता
- • using common adverbs in sentences, for example, धीरे-धीरे, जल्दी में, दौड़ते हुए
- • using negative forms of verbs and adjectives, for example, सोहन ने फिल्म नहीं देखी। झूठ कभी मत बोलो।
- • using interrogatives to ask questions and seek further information, for example, कब, क्या, क्यों, कहाँ, कैसे
- • specifying location, place or direction using prepositions such as पहले से, अंदर, बाहर, वह बाहर से आया है।
- • describing quantities using cardinal numbers, for example, एक, दो, पाँच, सात and पाँच रोटियाँ, दस गिलास and writing ordinal numbers such as पहला, दूसरा