AC9LIT8EC06 Year 7 Languages

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.

create spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts using appropriate vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures, and some textual conventions

Elaborations

• 1

  producing and presenting texts (cartoons, big/picture books, digital stories/books, plays, etc.) for different learners, for example, producing and presenting characters such as cartoon characters, Commedia dell’Arte characters

• 2 providing bilingual captions for texts, for example, creating picture dictionaries and photo stories with captions in Italian and English
• 3

  highlighting aspects of culture (school life, etc.), for example, aula magna, bidello/a, mensa, andare a scuola in motorino, by creating digital texts such as annotated maps or building plans

• 4 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
• 5

  designing a pop-up picture book about self, based on coursework mi presento; la mia famiglia; la scuola e la mia giornata; l’animale domestico; i miei passatempi

• 6

  writing a short poem about il tuo animale domestico or creating a poster about an endangered animal such as La tigre è un animale a rischio

• 7

  composing texts such as raps, poems, lyrics, fotoromanzi, blogs, social media pages, website homepage based on personal experiences and cultural events, for example, creating a song featuring body parts or titles such as Pasqua in Australia, Natale al sole, la mia pagina facebook

• 8 reinterpreting and performing stories and songs in spoken or written form, by retelling the sequence, reordering the events in a story, or creating an alternative representation or ending
• 9

  performing their own texts which reflect daily routines such as family life and school life, for example, a video about your daily routine using reflexive verbs, Mi sveglio alle 7; Mi alzo alle 7,30; Questa è la mia famiglia, Questa è la mia scuola … devo lavare i piatti, posso uscire con gli amici, guardare le sitcom/le serie alla TV/YouTube/chattare/postare sui social etc.

• 10

  creating and performing their own texts which reflect Italian cultural behaviours (a skit of different people greeting each other in a range of social settings or reflecting social conventions and attitudes, etc.), or skits of appropriate behaviours in context, for example, Bisogna essere puntuali/organizzati/rispettosi!

Related Achievement Standards