AC9LS10EC01 Year 9 Languages

AC9LS10EC01 – Year 9 Languages: Interacting in Spanish

Strand

Communicating meaning in Spanish

Substrand

Interacting in Spanish

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.

Content Descriptor

initiate and sustain interactions in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts to exchange ideas, opinions and experiences about their own and others’ personal worlds

Elaborations

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initiating conversations with peers, family and others, using expressions, such as ¿Qué pasa? ¿Cómo estás hoy, profe? ¡Qué buen tiempo!
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expressing, comparing and explaining likes, dislikes and preferences, for example, Me gusta más el baloncesto que el fútbol. Me encanta la historia porque me parece interesante. Nuestro colegio es grandísimo, es el más grande de la ciudad. Lo que más me gusta hacer los fines de semana es estar con mis amigos.
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interviewing other teenagers to build relationships and share views on aspects of young people’s lives, such as friends, responsibilities, interests and aspirations, for example, ¿qué te gusta hacer los fines de semana? ¿qué tareas haces en casa? ¿te interesa la música? ¿qué te gustaría hacer en el futuro?, for example, ‘speed peer dating’, tomar un año sabático, viajar por el mundo, hacer voluntariado
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developing non-verbal and spoken techniques and strategies to maintain the flow and authenticity of conversations using spontaneous interjections, expressions and gap fillers, for example, mira …, ¡Vale! / ¿Me entiendes? ¡Dios mío! ¡Qué guay!
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sharing impressions of past experiences and significant events, for example, en mis vacaciones, primero fuimos a …, después ..., durante la segunda semana ... y entonces ..., fue fenomenal ..., al final ... y ¿Qué tal tus vacaciones?
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discussing personal views on topics such as acoso escolar, ideal de belleza and música, using expressions such as de ninguna manera … claro que sí ... to link and elaborate ideas in round table discussion or debate
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using appropriate discussion strategies such as active listening, showing interest, acknowledging others’ opinions, responding to, elaborating and extending ideas, for example, Perdona, pero no estoy de acuerdo contigo porque …, Me parece mejor …, ¿Qué os/les parece si …?

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANSPA7_10Y910

Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students initiate and sustain Spanish language to exchange and compare ideas and experiences about their own and others’ personal worlds. They communicate using non-verbal, spoken and written language to collaborate, plan and reflect on activities and events. They interpret and analyse information and ideas in texts and demonstrate understanding of different perspectives. They synthesise information and respond in Spanish or English, adjusting language to convey meaning and to suit context, purpose and audience. They use structures and features of spoken and written Spanish to create texts. Students apply features and conventions of spoken Spanish to enhance fluency. They select and apply knowledge of language conventions, structures and features to interact, make meaning and create texts. They support discussion of structures and features of texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own language use and cultural identity, and draw on their experience of learning Spanish, to discuss how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.