AC9LIT10C03 Year 9 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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.

evaluate and synthesise information, ideas and perspectives in a broad range of spoken, written and multimodal texts and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• 1 interviewing older Italian speakers about aspects of their life when they were teenagers (their interests, daily routine practices, preferences, choices, likes, dislikes, etc.) and comparing the information with their own life in a report about ‘the pros and cons of being young: now and in the past’
• 2

  extracting details and main ideas, making judgements about their relevance and discussing contrasting points of view, for example, I fatti presentati sono ...; L'articolo è stato scritto dal punto di vista del genitore; Le due persone non sono d'accordo perché ...

• 3

  exploring different sources to gather information about an issue, organising their findings using tools (tables, graphic organisers, charts, etc.), reporting it to others, and discussing whether the information from different sources is similar or different and offering reasons why, Nella tabella si vede che ...; Secondo l'indagine ...; Secondo tre dottori ...; Tutti e tre articoli dicono che ...

• 4 listening to or reading a First Nations Australian’s stories and discussing their opinions and ideas, and, in Italian, presenting their personal profile to the class
• 5

  listening to,  reading and viewing authentic texts and answering critical literacy questions in Italian and English, for example, Chi è l’autore? Di cosa tratta? Per chi è stato scritto? Qual è il tema? Qual è lo scopo?

• 6

  summarising the message or argument of a text (advertisement, poster, article, etc.) and using evidence from the text to consider how claims are supported, for example, comparing different perspectives of the same event or a topical issue such as i rapporti intergenerazionali, l’ambiente, le scelte alimentari, il consumo del grano transgenico, i rapporti genitori-figli

• 7

  conveying ideas drawn from different areas of learning (health and nutrition, design, biological science, etc.) to inform others, for example, Venite! Ascoltate e provate …! Usalo/a due volte al giorno e vedrai i risultati! Mangiare molto zucchero danneggia le ossa, i denti ed il fegato. Per stare meglio, bisogna mangiare meglio ed evitare lo zucchero.

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