AC9LMG8C03 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.

interpret information, ideas and opinions in a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• 1

  listening to songs, interviews, reports, or reading about issues that may be of concern for young people, such as ειρήνη στον κόσμο, προστασία του περιβάλλοντος, and sharing opinions and feelings

• 2 collecting information from a range of print and digital texts such as advertisements, signs, announcements, maps and recipes, identifying context, purpose and audience, and using print and secure online resources such as dictionaries and grammar references to support understanding
• 3

  comparing information from different texts such as a diary entry, song or invitation about special occasions, evaluating information and discussing culture-specific terms and representations, for example, Να ζήσεις! Χρόνια πολλά

• 4 listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories in English and responding to them in spoken or written Greek
• 5

  accessing texts such as invitations, cards and messages, summarising main ideas and key information, and responding to them, for example, Ευχαριστώ για το μήνυμα, Θα είμαι εκεί στις εφτά

• 6

  responding to questions on a variety of topics for a range of purposes, for example, a report on a holiday destination, comparing travel brochures and itineraries, identifying transport and accommodation options, costs, and places of interest, for example, Πήγα στη Γαλλία και είδα τη Μόνα Λίζα, Πόσο μακριά είναι η Ακρόπολη από το Λυκαβηττό; Το ξενοδοχείο κοστίζει 200€

• 7

  summarising and presenting findings from interviews with peers in own class or in Greek-speaking classes and settings, using formats such as profile posters, charts and timelines, for example, Πόσα μέλη έχει η οικογένειά σου; Πόσες γλώσσες μιλούν ή μαθαίνουν τα παιδιά στην Αυστραλία;

• 8 summarising and conveying the main points of texts, deducing the meaning of some unknown words and phrases, and identifying known cultural references, images and other content that contributes to the overall meaning such as images of the Acropοlis with the symbol of the owl, or the olive branch/wreath symbolising peace and victory, for example at the Olympic Games
• 9

  responding to imaginative texts, stating personal preferences, or comparing ways in which people, places and experiences are represented, for example, the goddess Athena, the sea god Poseidon, Pandora’s box, ‘Aesop’s Fables’ such as ‘The Fox and the Grapes’, Η Πανδώρα άνοιξε το κουτί. Ευτυχώς που έμεινε η Ελπίδα, H αλεπού ήταν πονηρή, Η θεά Αθηνά είναι η πιο έξυπνη, Η Ελπίδα είναι καλή

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