AC9LIN8EU03 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.

compare Indonesian language structures and features with English, using familiar metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1 understanding subject+verb+object sentence construction in Indonesian and English, noting word order of nouns and adjective and the absence of the verb ‘to be’
• 2

  identifying loan words, for example, taksi, om, salam

• 3

  understanding that Indonesian uses adverbs of time and frequency to indicate tense, whereas English uses verb conjugation, for example sedang, sudah, belum

• 4

  recognising that both Indonesian and English use prefixes and suffixes to change the meaning of words, for example, me-, ber-, -an, pe-an, -lah

• 5

  understanding that Indonesian uses classifiers such as kota, pulau and pantai to categorise a place

• 6 comparing similarities in key features of Indonesian and English texts such as stories, songs and conversations

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