AC9LIT10EC06 Years 9 to 10 Languages

Content descriptor 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

• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration writing poems, letters or emails to characters from a story or film that have left a significant impression
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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.
• • Elaboration writing to the editor of a print or online newspaper about an important issue, justifying personal opinions
• • Elaboration promoting awareness of a particular issue, topic or behaviour, such as recycling, conservation, sustainability, traditional Italian cuisines, sport and fitness options, by creating a poster, blog or advertisement

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• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration sharing a personal profile or biography with classmates, including memories from childhood, future aspirations and plans and reflections about learning Italian
• • Elaboration making a ‘pros and cons’ list for continuing the study of Italian in the senior years of school