AC9LIT10EU01 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.

apply features of the Italian sound system, including pitch, rhythm, stress, pronunciation and intonation, and show how these are represented in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

• 1

  recognising the differences in pronunciation and stress of words with similar spelling, for example, sùbito, subito

• 2

  recognising and using some common interjections, for example, oh!, e?, cioè, ahimè, ohimè, uffa!

• 3 comparing and contrasting the pronunciation of similar-sounding words using text-to-speech software or the audio option in word processing programs
• 4

  recognising common cognate words in speech, for example, organizzazione, programmare, arrivare

• 5 identifying and interpreting sounds and textual features and devices (onomatopoeia, repetition, simile, metaphor, etc.) and understanding how they can be used to express emotion and convey attitudes
• 6

  recognising the difference between anglicised and Italian pronunciation in words such as hamburger, bruschetta, spaghetti, caffelatte

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