AC9LRF10U02 Year 9 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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.

apply knowledge of grammatical structures and features to predict meaning and compose texts that contain some complex structures and ideas

Elaborations

• 1 using correct word order such as verb+tense indicator+pronoun in an information-gap activity
• 2 understanding and using free word order or structure to make meaning, for example, subject+object+verb or object+verb+subject, using the appropriate case marker for the object/receiver of the action
• 3 using placemats as a reference to vocabulary, phrases, expressions, and linguistic features such as nouns, verbs, suffixes
• 4 explaining how verbs can be changed into nouns by using appropriate suffixes
• 5 adding suffixes to verb stems to identify the action and to determine the tense and number, for example, past, present and future, and singular, dual and plural
• 6

  understanding the role of suffixes in case and case marking for nouns, pronouns and adjectives, for example, I came from Mount Morgan, The dog goes to the old tree, The boy is standing next to the tree, The vicious dog bit the little girl, or equivalent in [Language]

• 7 taking existing words and creating new words using suffixes
• 8 forming nouns, pronouns and bound pronouns and adjectives
• 9 understanding and applying the rules of the different verb categories, for example, verb-stem morphology, including compound verbs, reduplicated verbs, habitual and characteristic verbs, and transitive and intransitive verbs
• 10

  understanding that verbs have different functions such as causative, inchoative (the beginning of an action such as to fall silent, to get in), reflexive-reciprocal

• 11 using adverbs or modifiers of time, manner, feelings, number and description
• 12 joining clauses with conjunctions and linking devices
• 13 researching how the process of language-building under the custodianship of Elders and/or community members, expands existing linguistic and cultural resources in the community

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