AC9LRF6C04 Years 5 to 6 Languages

Content descriptor apply strategies to interpret and convey meaning in [Language] language in familiar non-verbal, spoken and written cultural contexts

Elaborations

• • Elaboration translating texts and identifying culture-specific concepts and expressions that do not easily translate into English, for example, language related to tools, placenames, landforms, kinship relations, and ways of being
• • Elaboration identifying and discussing contexts in the community where translators and interpreters are required
• • Elaboration identifying how the content and symbolism being described or represented in artworks or performances is relevant to Country/Place
• • Elaboration reflecting on how they communicate in [Language] with their own family, if appropriate, and with friends and people less close to them, noticing differences in language use and communicative behaviour
• • Elaboration creating bilingual/multilingual texts such as Creation, Dreamtime, Dreaming or traditional stories following appropriate protocols, cartoons, songs and photo stories, and reflecting on how different meanings are communicated in different languages for different audiences
• • Elaboration creating bilingual/multilingual captions and commentaries for a school display, for example, an art display
• • Elaboration identifying words in [Language] that are the same as or similar to neighbouring First Nations language(s)