AC9LH8U03 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.

reflect on similarities and differences between Hindi and English language structures and features, using metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1 recognising how language and style in Hindi and English texts vary according to context, purpose and intended audience, for example, comparing a formal presentation at Speech Day with an email to a close friend
• 2 teaching younger students or non-Hindi speakers about some key differences between the Hindi and English language, using simple metalanguage and support resources such as flash cards, diagrams, charts or tables
• 3 creating and comparing their own examples of Hindi and English text genres, such as horoscopes, prayers or weather forecasts, explaining their choice of particular language or text organisation
• 4 reflecting on similarities and differences between Hindi and English register and style in a range of contexts, for example, in songs, artistic graffiti and event invitations
• 5 reflecting on the use of colloquial or abbreviated language in technology and social media, for example, by email or phone, and the use of borrowed words from other languages
• 6 building metalanguage, in Hindi and English, to discuss and describe grammatical concepts and to organise learning resources such as verb charts, vocabulary lists, groups of pronouns, adverbs and adjectives

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