AC9LMG10U02 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.

apply knowledge of grammatical structures to predict meaning and compose texts that contain some complex structures and ideas

Elaborations

• 1

  selecting appropriate terms and tenses to describe events across time, for example, Φέτος θα πάω διακοπές στην Κύπρο, Πέρσι γύρισα όλη την Έλλαδα

• 2

  using a range of adverbs and adjectives to modify and intensify meaning of verbs and adjectives, for example, ακριβώς, αρκετά, πολύ, λίγο, πολλή

• 3

  understanding the use of imperative mood in Greek, for example, ελάτε, γράψε

• 4

  using a range of pronouns and possessive forms, following appropriate conventions, for example, μου/μας/σου/του/της/τους, δικό τους, δικά μας, η μπλούζα μου, το σπίτι μας

• 5

  seeking information using a range of interrogatives, for example, Ορίστε; Tι; Mήπως ξέρεις; Πώς; Πού; Γιατί; Πότε; Ποιός -ά-ό;

• 6

  recognising the order of pronouns to emphasise who is carrying out an action or to refer to a person or thing, and applying agreement in gender and number to identify subject and object, for example, Κανείς δεν είναι τέλειος, Μου αρέσουν αυτοί που λένε την αλήθεια

• 7

  using cohesive devices such as conjunctions to link, clarify and sequence ideas and modify meaning in written and spoken texts, for example, Αφού δεν είχα αρκετά λεφτά, γύρισα σπίτι μου, γιατί, επειδή, αλλά, και, τότε

• 8 using appropriate spelling, punctuation, accent marks and textual conventions in a range of written texts, for example, paragraphs, quotation marks «…», or the use of a dash (–) to indicate a new speaker
• 9

  conjugating nouns in nominative, genitive, accusative and vocative case, for example, ο νικητής, της μαθήτριας, τον πίνακα, δάσκαλε, for example, Αυτός είναι ο Δημήτρης. Αυτό είναι το σπίτι του Δημήτρη. Χτες είδα το Δημήτρη. Δημήτρη, έλα εδώ να σου πω κάτι σε παρακαλώ.

• 10

  understanding and using comparative and superlative adjectives, for example, βαθύς, βαθύτερος/πιο βαθύς, βαθύτατος/ο πιο βαθύς

• 11

  using prior knowledge of morphemes to predict the meaning and spelling of unfamiliar words in different contexts, for example, auto-, hypo-, biblio-, in words such as αυτοβιογραφία, υποκριτής, βιβλιογραφία

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