AC9LJ10EC01 Year 9 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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.

initiate and sustain interactions in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts to exchange ideas, experiences and opinions about their own and others’ personal world

Elaborations

• 1 using appropriate levels of formality for everyday exchanges such as greetings, introductions and apologies, for example, こんにちは。おそくなってすみません。ごめんね！ and thanking, inviting or congratulating one another, for example, メールをどうもありがとう。 いっしょにカラオケをしませんか。
• 2 sharing information and expressing opinions and aspirations about teenage life, and significant or special events in their own life, such as celebrations, leisure activities, and future plans, and comparing with those of Japanese teenagers, for example, 土よう日はぼくのたん生日パーティーでした。どうでしたか。たくさん友だちが来て、たのしかったです。行きたいです。つまらないとおもいます。
• 3 communicating with one another and with teenage Japanese speakers, via email, online conferencing or school-based exchanges, about shared interests such as popular culture, sports and special events, and global issues such as sustainability, or comparing aspects of teenage life, for example, 私のしゅみはスポーツです。山川さんはスポーツをしますか。私はスーパーでアルバイトをしています。デービッドさんはアルバイトをしていますか。日本でリサイクルはきびしいですか。
• 4 providing evidence or reasons to justify own opinions, preferences, or planned actions, in response to others, for example, べんりだから／なので、コンビニで買いものをします、さかなはおいしいから、にくよりすしのほうが好きです。
• 5 developing strategies to initiate, sustain and extend interactions such as asking for clarification, confirmation or additional information いつしますか、だれとしますか、 どうですか, and acknowledging and showing interest using appropriate gestures and expressions such as あいづち, and interjections ああ、そうですか、いいですね、そうですね、へえ、はい、うん
• 6 interacting via different modes of written communication in print and digital form, for example, writing letters, text messages and emails, to exchange personal information, ideas and opinions はい、十時に行きます、 ～さんはどうですか。

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