AC9LMG8C01 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.

initiate and sustain exchanges in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to students’ experiences, feelings and views, adjusting their language in response to others

Elaborations

• 1 interacting with peers, face-to-face or online, describing everyday aspects of their environment, lifestyles and routines, and making comparisons with those of students in different cultural contexts, for example, school holidays in Australia compared with Greece or Cyprus
• 2

  initiating and sustaining conversations with others to exchange personal information about language(s) spoken, family and friends, life experiences and immediate environment using Μιλώ ελληνικά και …, H καταγωγή μου είναι από …, Tα ενδιαφέροντά μου είναι ... and other verbs such as Aσχολούμαι με ...

• 3

  sharing details about favourite forms of entertainment, celebrities and other significant figures, expressing and justifying preferences, for example, Μου αρέσει, Λατρεύω το ποδόσφαιρο, νομίζω, αισθάνομαι, προτιμώ γιατί ...

• 4

  using interjections, common expressions and body language to assist with fluency, show interest, maintain conversations or fill gaps or pauses, for example, ναι ναι, μάλιστα, εντάξει, αλήθεια

• 5

  interacting in exchanges using language associated with time, sequence and location, for example, Θα σε δω το Σάββατο στις 2 η ώρα, Μετά θα πάμε στο χορό, Το 2022 πήγα στην Ελλάδα.

• 6

  recounting events and describing activities and personal experiences, for example, Πήγα σινεμά, Μου αρέσει η ζωγραφική, Είδα τον Αντώνη, Είχα τα γενέθλιά μου

• 7

  asking for, giving and following instructions in a variety of situations, varying language to suit formal or informal situations, for example, Τι θα κάνουμε τώρα; Δώσε μου το βιβλίο σου, Ανοίξτε τα βιβλία σας στη σελίδα … παρακαλώ, Πρέπει να τελειώσετε αυτή την άσκηση στο σπίτι ...

• 8

  asking and responding to questions, for example, Ποιο μάθημα σου αρέσει καλύτερα και γιατί;, Μου αρέσει η ζωγραφική γιατί ...

• 9

  expressing opinions using language such as Πιστεύω, Η γνώμη μου είναι ότι, and inviting people to give opinions or suggestions, for example, Τι νομίζεις; Τι προτείνεις;

• 10 making appropriate language choices, including non-verbal communication, with awareness of social situations, for example, using the polite plural form when speaking to people who are older than themselves or unfamiliar

Related Achievement Standards