AC9LIT8EU01 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.

recognise and use features of the Italian sound system, including pitch, rhythm, stress, pronunciation and intonation, and demonstrate understanding of how these are represented in familiar contexts

Elaborations

• 1 recognising that Standard Italian is used in Italy and in diverse communities throughout the world, and that many speakers of Italian may also speak a regional and/or local dialect
• 2

  examining differences in pronunciation of consonant and vowel combinations, double consonants, stress and accents, and applying to their own work, for example, famiglie, gnocchi, chiese, barche, chiavi, buono, cena, azione; sono and sonno, vale and valle; felicità, capacità, papa and pappa, casa and cassa, nono and nonno

• 3

  imitating the sound combinations of Italian, for example, consonant combinations ‘ce’, ‘ci’, ‘co’, ‘cu’, ‘ca’, ‘chi’, ‘che’, ‘gi’, ‘ge’, ‘go’, ‘gu’, ‘ghi’, ‘ghe’, ‘sci’, ‘sce’, ‘schi’, ‘sche’

• 4

  recognising the differences in tone and rhythm between statements, questions, exclamations and commands when speaking, interacting and expressing emotion, for example, Vai a casa? Va’ a casa! Oh! E? Ahimè!

• 5

  making connections between spoken and written forms, and understanding the effect of grave and acute accent marks on pronunciation and meaning, for example, papa/papà; città, perché, cioè

• 6

  recognising and understanding the role of pause fillers and using them to assist the flow of conversation, for example, beginning to use Insomma; Allora; Dunque; Vediamo ... when appropriate

• 7 checking pronunciation of words using sound files and text-to-speech software

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