AC9LIT8U02 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.

apply understanding of grammatical structures and expressions to compose and respond to texts

Elaborations

• 1

  using affixes for emphasis such as suffixes –ino/a, -issimo/a, -etto/a, -astro/a, for example, grande-grandissimo, piccolo-piccolino, casa-casetta, figlio-figliastro and figlia-figliastra, and prefixes such as pro- and bis-, for example, prozio and bisnonno

• 2 extending knowledge of noun+adjective word order and rationale for different order
• 3 using direct object pronouns with the present tense
• 4

  understanding that some prepositions such as a, di, da, in, su combine with the article, for example, a+il=al, di+la=della, da+l’=dall’, in+lo=nello, su+i=sui and some prepositions such as tra, per do not combine

• 5

  using a range of adverbs to qualify verbs, for example, proprio, troppo, abbastanza, specialmente, spesso, nemmeno, purtroppo, non … né … né …

• 6

  using more complex negative constructions including the double negative, for example, Non vado mai in centro. Non c’è niente/nessuno

• 7 consolidating conjugation skills of regular verbs in the present tense, present perfect tense and of high-frequency reflexive verbs and irregular verbs to express action in time
• 8

  recognising and using the imperfect tense in modelled structures, for example, mi ricordo quando ero piccolo(a) …; Avevo 13 anni quando …

• 9

  recognising and understanding the use of the impersonal si, Si parla italiano in questa farmacia.

• 10 understanding how to use modal verb forms to express possibility, obligation, ability, likelihood and permission

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