AC9LIT8C05 Year 7 Languages

AC9LIT8C05 – Year 7 Languages: Creating text in Italian

Strand

Communicating meaning in Italian

Substrand

Creating text in Italian

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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.

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

• using appropriate digital tools to create and present an informative oral or written history of a significant older Italian person in the community
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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.
• composing a skit or short film with subtitles, depicting an aspect of contemporary teenage life from an Italian or Australian perspective
• 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
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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!
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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!
• 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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• 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
• 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
• applying the main features of familiar text types in Italian when writing a letter, email, description, narrative or report in Italian
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taking note of ‘false friends’ when creating texts, for example, noting that the English word ‘annoyed’ does not translate to ‘annoiato’ in Italian

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANITAF10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students initiate and maintain interactions in Italian language in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to a range of interests and experiences. They use Italian to collaborate and problem-solve, and adjust language in response to others. They interpret information, ideas and opinions in texts. They demonstrate understanding of similarities and differences between languages, in both familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts, by adjusting and reorganising responses. They select and use vocabulary, sentence structures and expressions to create texts.Students apply the conventions of spoken Italian to develop fluency. They demonstrate understanding that spoken, written and multimodal texts use different language conventions, structures and features to convey meaning. They comment on structures and features of Italian text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how the Italian language, culture and identity are interconnected, and compare this with their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.