AC9LIT10EC06 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.

create spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts, selecting vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures and textual conventions for familiar and some unfamiliar contexts and purposes, to engage different audiences

Elaborations

• 1 creating a different version of a well-known story, changing aspects such as the location, time setting, or developing an alternative ending and publishing it in the school magazine
• 2 writing poems, letters or emails to characters from a story or film that have left a significant impression
• 3 entertaining others by creating texts expressing real or imagined experiences, ideas and emotions, for example, a rap about being young, a video about a fictional school, a cartoon about a real or fictitious hero, or a short story about an inanimate object coming to life
• 4 writing a journal entry, or contributing to a school newsletter in Italian reflecting on the impact of a visit to a significant cultural location on a First Nations Country/Place, and, with permission, referring to cultural knowledge of the site
• 5

  creating a video or a role-play to demonstrate the use of idiomatic expressions in context such as chatting with a friend – in gamba! Figurati! Permesso ...; a teacher leading an excursion –Non farmi fare brutta figura! Gambe in spalla!; explaining what is wrong with you – Ho sete, ho una fame da lupi.

• 6 writing to the editor of a print or online newspaper about an important issue, justifying personal opinions
• 7 promoting awareness of a particular issue, event or behaviour, such as recycling, conservation, sustainability, healthy food choices, sport and fitness options, by creating a poster, blog or advertisement
• 8 encouraging people to choose a specific location for a future trip by writing an account of your last holiday there, using persuasive language and imagery
• 9 sharing a personal profile or biography with classmates, including memories from childhood, future aspirations and plans and reflections about learning Italian
• 10 making a ‘pros and cons’ list for continuing the study of Italian in the senior years of school

Related Achievement Standards