AC9LRF8C03
Year 7
Languages
AC9LRF8C03 – Year 7 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages
Strand
Communicating meaning in [Language]
Substrand
Mediating meaning in and between 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.
Content Descriptor
interpret information, ideas and opinions in a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience
Elaborations
- • accessing a range of texts such as articles, scientific data and evidence, and Creation, Dreamtime, Dreaming and traditional stories, to demonstrate that there are shared universal world views and to exchange information about the world, science, astronomy, etc.
- • responding to texts such as stories or video clips by recording key vocabulary and expressions, identifying main ideas and sequences of events
- • discussing and explaining how land, waters, sky, people, plants, animals, and social and ecological relationships are expressed through the arts
- • identifying how geographical location relates to or expresses elements of Country/Place and Peoples, and investigating how this may be manifested in traditional and contemporary arts, including paintings, weavings and artefacts
- • listening to, viewing and sharing personal responses to popular First Nations traditional and contemporary music, identifying key messages and themes
- • investigating how stories and songs often link neighbouring First Nations groups and nations, and recreating or acting out their own stories or songs
- • researching the origins of First Nations names in their local regional, state or territory, recording meanings where known, and identifying different source languages, comparing similarities to or shared words with their own language
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- • providing live commentary of a dance performance, with guidance from Elders and/or community members, commenting on movements, the role and positioning of the dancers and musicians, the significance of body art, symbols and adornments, and interpreting key messages of the performance and the meaning of movements
- • developing a photographic record or portfolio of different animal and plant species found on Country/Place, providing a spoken or written commentary or annotations
- • identifying and describing the role of various First Nations organisations that provide services to their community
- • researching different aspects of a selected First Nations business operating in the community, for example, an organisation or enterprise associated with the arts, bush medicine, bush food, tourism, transportation or animal husbandry, and presenting findings in a digital format or oral presentation mode
- • researching First Nations words used in English, and identifying and explaining words that come from the local language
- • researching and exchanging opinions about important historical events concerning the local community
- • reading a Creation, Dreamtime, Dreaming or traditional story, and placing the events in chronological order or translating a section of the story
- • reading and performing a traditional song or dance with permission from Elders and/or community members, and explaining it to younger students