AC9LMG8U03 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.

reflect on similarities and differences between Greek and English language structures and features, using metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1

  analysing features of texts that are constructed for a variety of purposes such as to request, instruct, invite or describe, for example, an invitation to a party or a greeting card, σας προσκαλούμε στη γιορτή του σχολείου μας

• 2 identifying and comparing language structures and features used in Greek and English texts, such as the degree of formality, headings, and lexical and grammatical choices that distinguish textual purpose and audience, for example, different greetings and levels of formality expressed in conversations, speeches, emails and text messages
• 3 reflecting on similarities and differences between Greek and English register and style in a range of contexts, for example, in songs, artistic graffiti and event invitations
• 4

  using metalanguage to refer to parts of speech, syntax and punctuation in Greek and/or English, for example, ουσιαστικό, ενικό, πληθυντικό, αρσενικό, θηλυκό, ουδέτερο, επίθετο

• 5

  comparing morphemes in Greek and English words, to help with spelling and to aid comprehension, such as auto-, demo-, -gram, hypo-, -ism, -logue, mono-, morph-, peri-, phil-, -phobia, psych-, -therm-, for example, δημοκρατία, γραφή, μονόλογος

• 6 identifying Greek letters, words and morphemes encountered in other learning areas such as Mathematics, Science and Technologies, for example, π, Τριγωνομετρία, Πυθαγόρας, γεωμετρία, βιολογία, χλωρός, βακτηριον, τεχνολογία
• 7

  reflecting on the use of colloquial or abbreviated language in technology, for example, by email or phone, and the use of borrowed words from other languages, for example, στικάκι (memory stick), σερφάρω (surfing the internet)

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