AC9LIT8C05 Years 7 to 8 Languages

Content descriptor create and present spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts, selecting vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures, features and conventions appropriate to text type and context

Elaborations

• • Elaboration using appropriate digital tools to create and present an informative oral or written history of a significant older Italian person in the community
• • Elaboration creating and/or performing their own spoken, written or multimodal texts which reflect Italian cultural behaviours, attitudes and social conventions, for example, writing the script and creating a video recording to introduce aspects of family life, school life, local community life, and comparing their own texts to others’, for example, Prima di entrare in aula, chiedo permesso; Prima di entrare in casa, mi levo le scarpe; Prima di mangiare, dico buon appetito; Prima di andare a letto, dico buonanotte a tutti.
• • Elaboration composing a skit or short film with subtitles, depicting an aspect of contemporary teenage life from an Italian or Australian perspective
• • Elaboration creating a print or digital poster in Italian to promote travel to a significant cultural location on a First Nations Country/Place, including what to see and do
• • Elaboration creating an advertisement or poster to persuade a specific audience using imperative form, for example, Non rovinare la nostra scuola! Metti i rifiuti nei bidoni, non sotto i piedi! Non aspettate! Fatelo subito!
• • Elaboration designing cartoons, picture stories, plays or big books appropriate for different audiences, using repetitive sentence structures and vocabulary, for example, Di chi è questa coda? È della mucca!
• • Elaboration describing events occurring in the present and past, and considering that Italian and English express concepts across time in different ways

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• • Elaboration designing a digital poster or electronic brochure to advertise a social event in their local community related to lifestyles, social and cultural events or environmental issues
• • Elaboration making entries in a journal about their experience learning Italian, recording significant events and milestones, and describing their progress and how they have arrived at the decision to go on an exchange to Italy
• • Elaboration applying the main features of familiar text types in Italian when writing a letter, email, description, narrative or report in Italian
• • Elaboration taking note of ‘false friends’ when creating texts, for example, noting that the English word ‘annoyed’ does not translate to ‘annoiato’ in Italian