AC9LJ8EU02 Year 7 Languages

AC9LJ8EU02 – 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

develop knowledge of, and use structures and features of the Japanese grammatical and writing systems to understand and create spoken, written and multimodal texts

Elaborations

• understanding the origins of Japanese script (kanji from China; hiragana was formed by simplifying the form of kanji, while katakana was formed using a part of kanji) and that modern Japanese uses all 3 scripts depending on word origins and context
• understanding and using a range of particles to perform different functions, including sentence-ending particles such as か and ね
• understanding that each individual kanji represents meaning as well as sound, for example, 日 (‘sun’, ‘day’), and that some kanji characters come from pictographs, for example, 山
• understanding how to use い and な adjectives in the present and past tense, positive and negative, in basic sentences, for example, たのしい、たのしかった、たのしくない、ゆうめいな、ゆうめいじゃない
• understanding the use of furigana as a tool to support reading, and romaji to type in Japanese
• understanding and using basic Japanese punctuation marks such as a まる (。)、てん (、), katakana long vowel mark (ー), and basic writing conventions involved when using げんこうようし
• applying the principles of basic stroke order to write all kana and high-frequency kanji such as numbers, days of the week, family members, and basic adjectives and verbs

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• reading and writing all hiragana and katakana including voiced, contracted and blended sounds; understanding the systematic nature of the kana chart and Japanese grammar to support learning
• using basic types of sentence structures in Japanese, understanding that word order of noun phrases is flexible as long as particle use is correct, and sentences end with a verb/copula: subject は noun です。, subject は adjective です。, subject は object/place を／に verb ます
• using a range of familiar verbs in the present and past tense, including both positive and negative, for example, 行きます、見ません、たべました、ききませんでした
• creating cohesion, flow and adding detail by using conjunctions そして、それから、でも, adverbs まい日、ときどき、とても and linking nouns and adjectives おいしくて、母と
• counting from 1–100 and using some basic Japanese counters such as 人、才、月、日

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANJAP7_10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students use Japanese 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 locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in Japanese 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. They use some familiar katakana and kanji, and hiragana, with support.Students approximate Japanese sound patterns, intonation and rhythms, and recognise the relationship between spoken and written forms. They demonstrate understanding that Japanese has conventions and rules for scripts, non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They comment on aspects of Japanese and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that the Japanese language is connected with culture and identity, and how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.