AC9LIT8EC06 Year 7 Languages

AC9LIT8EC06 – 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 spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts using appropriate vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures, and some textual conventions

Elaborations

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

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• 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
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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.
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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!

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.