AC9LH8U02
Year 7
Languages
AC9LH8U02 – 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
apply understanding of grammatical structures and expressions to compose and respond to texts
Elaborations
- • understanding and applying punctuation in writing, or adhering to punctuation conventions in reading, for example, full stop, comma, exclamation mark, brackets, apostrophe, speech marks and question marks
- • understanding phonic and grammatical changes to the spelling, writing and basic joining (सन्धि) rules of unfamiliar words to achieve text cohesion, for example, महा + उत्सव = महोत्सव and इ+आ = ए
- • using a range of verb tenses to describe routines and actions, for example, मैं दिल्ली जा रहा हूँ। मैं दिल्ली गया था। मैं दिल्ली जाऊँगा।
- • using adverbs of time, place and frequency in a variety of sentences, such as आज, ऊपर, हमेशा
- • using the active and passive voice according to context, for example, मैंने आपको बुलाया है। आपको बुलाया गया है।
- • using adjectives in comparative structures such as राम थोड़ा लम्बा है। राधा हेमा से अधिक चतुर है।
- • creating compound and complex sentences by using conjunctions such as मैं अभी लिखूँगा ताकि समय पूरा होने से पहले लेख खत्म कर लूँ।
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- • developing text cohesion using paragraphing or conjunctions to sequence and link ideas and to maintain the flow of expression, for example, यदि आप चाहें तो...
- • using numbers and numerical expressions for a range of purposes such as आधा, चौथाई, एक तिहाई, सैंकड़ों, हज़ारों, तीन गुणा
- • recognising the function and form of commonly used suffixes and prefixes, for example, by collecting groups of words that share a base word, such as बुद्धि, सुबुद्धि, बुद्धिमान, बुद्धिमती
- • recognising and using idiomatic expressions such as आँख का तारा