AC9LJ8EC04 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.

locate and process information and ideas in familiar spoken, written and multimodal texts, responding in ways appropriate to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• 1 identifying key information and facts such as names of people and places, times and activities in familiar contexts, including conversations, advertisements, profiles and simple narratives (using texts such as manga, anime, folk tales, etc.)
• 2 obtaining and organising specific information from a range of everyday Japanese texts (emails, menus, reports, maps, timetables, etc.) and responding in Japanese, for example, accessing a simple weather forecast, and using this information when writing a message to a friend to go somewhere 土よう日ははれです。うみに行きましょう。
• 3 using digital tools to gather, classify and summarise results of class surveys or interviews on topics (students’ likes, interests, family, neighbourhood, activities, habits, etc.) and presenting findings in chosen formats, for example, ひるごはんになにをたべますか。日よう日になにをしますか。しゅうまつにどこに行きますか。
• 4 listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories and responding to them in spoken or written Japanese
• 5 responding to structured stimulus questions about characters, places, events or effects in imaginative texts (stories, films, anime, etc.) using modelled language and formulaic expressions to express reactions, for example, やさしい人、おもしろいはなしですね、ちょっとこわいですよ、たのしかったです、びっくりしました！
• 6 reading and viewing texts (anime, manga, video clips, lyrics of J-pop, etc.) and responding to questions about characters, lyrics or events, for example, だれですか、なまえはなんですか、なんのイベントですか、どこですか or recreating elements using a storyboard, timeline or original performance
• 7 identifying common themes, key messages, values, or issues in Japanese texts, such as the moral of a story or folk tale, and noticing concepts that may be similar or different across cultures, for example, おんがえし, working hard, consideration of others and humility

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