AC9LMG8EU02 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.

develop knowledge of, and use structures and features of, the Greek alphabet, grammatical and writing systems to understand and create spoken, written and multimodal texts

Elaborations

• 1 using the Modern Greek alphabet for spelling of names and commonly used language
• 2

  applying punctuation in texts, for example, the question mark (;), the acute (ά) and commas

• 3

  recognising and applying agreement and word order, for example, Η μαμά μου είναι ...

• 4

  learning the definite article in both singular and plural forms ο, η, το, οι, οι, τα

• 5

  distinguishing the difference between the use of definite and indefinite articles, for example, ο, η, το,ένας, μία, ένα

• 6

  using simple prepositions to add detail and connect ideas, such as κάτω, μέσα, έξω, πάνω, πίσω, μπροστά

• 7

  counting and using numbers in different contexts, such as telling the time, stating dates and quantities, for example, Είναι έξι η ώρα, Είμαι πενήντα κιλά, Πηγαίνω πρώτη γυμνασίου, Τα γενέθλιά μου είναι στις 10 Απριλίου.

• 8

  using singular and plural pronouns, εγώ, εσύ, αυτός/η/ο, εμείς, εσείς, αυτοί/ες/α

• 9

  understanding and applying verb conjugation by using appropriate verb endings, for example, εγώ γράφω, εσύ γράφεις, αυτός/ή/ό γράφει, εμείς γράφουμε, εσείς γράφετε, αυτοί/ές/ά γράφουν

• 10

  using affirmative and negative statements in present, for example, εγώ παίζω, εγώ δεν παίζω, εγώ παίζω;

• 11

  understanding and applying word order such as subject+verb+object, for example, Ο Νίκος παίζει μπάλα., as well as word agreement such as adjectives and nouns, for example, η κόκκινη μπάλα

• 12

  understanding Greek nouns are assigned one of 3 grammatical genders: masculine, feminine, neuter and that grammatical gender can reflect the actual gender of an animal or person, but also the gender of an inanimate object, for example, η καρέκλα, η τσάντα, ο καναπές

• 13

  indicating ownership or possession using singular possessive pronouns after the noun or adjective they refer to, such as μου, σου, του, της, του, του, for example, το βιβλίο μου, η μαμά της

• 14

  incorporating basic connectives in texts to enhance cohesion and link ideas, such as και, γιατί, αλλά, for example, Παίζω κιθάρα, αλλά μου αρέσει και το πιάνο

• 15

  recognising command verbs in context, for example, έλα, ελάτε, κλείσε, άνοιξε, κάθισε, καθίστε, σήκω, σηκωθείτε, γύρισε, γράψε, διάβασε, άκουσε

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