AC9LJ8EU03 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.

compare Japanese language structures and features with English, using familiar metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1 identifying similarities and differences in Japanese and English writing systems, grammatical rules or the use of elements such as pronouns, particles and absence of articles
• 2 developing metalanguage for communicating about language and structures, using terms such as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective and conjunction, and cross-referencing with knowledge of English language syntax and parts of speech
• 3 identifying words of Japanese origin used in English, for example, judo, karaoke, karate, obento, tempura, and recognising how they may be expressed in Japanese compared with English
• 4 recognising the use of words borrowed in Japanese from other languages such as English, French, Dutch and Portuguese, for example, サッカー、ゴルフ、パン、ランドセル and noting how these are pronounced by Japanese speakers

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