AC9LIT8EU01 Year 7 Languages

AC9LIT8EU01 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding systems of language

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

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

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

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.