AC9LMG8EC04 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.

locate and process information and ideas in familiar spoken, written and multimodal texts, responding in ways appropriate to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• 1

  listening to, reading or viewing texts such as a map, song, poster, email or interactive game, and responding to questions, for example, Πού είναι η Μύκονος; Τι χρώμα είναι τα ρούχα; Πότε κλείνουν τα σχολεία;

• 2

  understanding and retrieving information from a source and conveying details in a different format to a different audience, for example, reading about an annual event in a Greek-speaking community and producing a program for the event, Η γιορτή ξεκινάει στις δέκα το πρωί, or viewing a movie program and negotiating what to see, Θέλεις να δούμε … στις έξι;

• 3

  describing characters, events and key ideas in a range of texts using a scaffold such as a storyboard, καλός άνθρωπος, κακιά τύχη, Συνάντησε τη φίλη της στις πέντε το απόγευμα

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

  interviewing or surveying others and classifying and summarising information in graphs, tables and images, on topics such as favourite things, pets, family, daily routine, for example, Ποιό είναι το αγαπημένο σου βιβλίο; Έχεις κατοικίδιο ζώο;

• 6

  listening to or viewing stories, procedures, articles or reports and reorganising information in sequence of events or actions, using adverbs and linking words, for example, αρχικά, μετά, τελικά

• 7 demonstrating understanding of key points from a source, for example, reading a menu and discussing the order with the waiter to exclude some ingredients, seeing a poster for a gym opening and writing an email to a friend to try it out, or looking at a movie program and negotiating when to go and what to see with siblings

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