AC9LIT8EC01 Year 7 Languages

AC9LIT8EC01 – Year 7 Languages: Interacting in Italian

Strand

Communicating meaning in Italian

Substrand

Interacting 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

interact with others using modelled language to exchange information in familiar contexts about self and personal world

Elaborations

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greeting others, introducing themselves, expressing state of health and wellbeing, appreciation and good wishes, and leave-taking, using appropriate familiar or formal language, for example, Mi chiamo … e tu? Come ti chiami? Ho 12 anni. Sono Simonetta. Ciao Gianni, come stai? (Sto) bene/male, e tu? Mi dispiace. Ci vediamo domani. A domani. Buongiorno, ArrivederLa. Come si chiama? Buongiorno professoressa, come sta?
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sharing information about themselves, family, friends and pets using subject+verb+adjective, including negative expressions, for example, Non sono alto/a, Ho gli occhi castani, mio nonno e` simpatico, la mia amica del cuore e` …; sono australiano/a di origine italiana/inglese; il mio gatto e' molto carino.
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describing an object or event in their local environment using article+subject+verb+adjective, including negative expressions, for example, è/non è grande/bello/di cotone/di seta; è interessante/difficile/noisoso/divertente
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interviewing classmates about themselves, their family, pets, likes and dislikes, hobbies and leisure time activities, for example, Hai una sorella/ un fratello? Hai un animale domestico?
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discussing their interests and leisure time activities and preferences, for example, Cosa fai nel tempo libero? Mi piace/non mi piace lo sport perché non sono molto atletico, faccio il nuoto ma preferisco giocare a pallacanestro, gioco a calcio ogni sabato mattina con i miei amici, vado in città ogni venerdì sera con gli amici /al centro commerciale, suono la chitarra ogni lunedì.

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANITA7_10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students use Italian language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions, and recognise familiar gestures, questions and instructions in exchanges. They recognise relationships between spoken and written forms. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in Italian or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language, and modelled sentence and grammatical structures to create texts, and demonstrate understanding of how some language reflects cultural practices.Students approximate Italian sound patterns, intonation and rhythms, and demonstrate understanding that Italian has conventions and rules for non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They comment on aspects of Italian and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that the Italian language is connected with culture and identity, and that this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.