AC9LRF8C05 Year 7 Languages

AC9LRF8C05 – Year 7 Languages: Creating text in [Language]

Strand

Communicating meaning in [Language]

Substrand

Creating text in [Language]

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

create and present spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts for specific purposes, selecting vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures and features, and conventions appropriate to text type and context

Elaborations

• creating a journal record of activities such as excursions, performances or sporting events to share with teacher and peers
• writing the biography of a significant Elder or community member to share with teacher, family and peers
• creating a family tree to explore kinship and naming systems, relationships and responsibilities, etc.
• describing a typical day during the school week or on the weekend
• creating a rap or skit to entertain others, including digital or performative elements
• creating an interactive presentation for younger children that highlights the benefits of reclaiming and revitalising the language of and connection with the Country/Place and Peoples
• reviewing a film, computer game, novel or performance and writing a review using key words, phrases and expressions

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• taking on the role of a character from a First Nations story and responding to questions in-role of that character
• telling the story of a real or imagined journey, involving a variety of characters connected with Country/Place or events and choosing a preferred mode of storytelling, such as miming, performing, dancing, animating or recounting the story
• creating their own visual and performative artwork and, after consultation with and permission from Elders and/or community members, using symbols and techniques appropriate to Country/Place and Peoples to convey a message or emotion, for example, a dance using movement to convey the meaning /message/theme of the story
• creating animations, songs, short plays, sporting chants/jingles or stories to present in class or to share with the local community or with a wider, virtual audience
• creating and editing a multimodal presentation in [Language] to explain aspects of the local Country/Place, for example, the importance of geographical features, spiritual significance, uniqueness of flora and fauna
• researching and sharing information about other Indigenous Peoples in Asia, for example, the Ainu people of Northern Japan

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANFALLRY78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students contribute to and maintain interactions in [Language] language in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to a range of interests and experiences. They use [Language] to negotiate solutions and adjust language in response to others. They interpret information, ideas and opinions in texts. They demonstrate understanding of similarities and differences among languages, in both familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts, by adjusting responses to suit context, purpose and audience. They select and use vocabulary, sentence structures and expressions to create texts. Students apply the conventions of spoken [Language] to enhance fluency. They demonstrate understanding that spoken, written and multimodal texts use different language conventions, structures and features to convey meaning. They comment on structures and features of [Language] text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how language communities pass down, maintain or revive [Language], knowledge and cultural norms following appropriate protocols, and how these are interconnected with identity. They reflect on their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.