AC9LS10EC04 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.

interpret information, ideas and perspectives in a wide range of spoken, written and multimodal texts and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• 1

  reading tourist brochures and travel websites about diverse locations in Spanish-speaking communities, identifying and comparing features of local lifestyles, such as food and festivals, reflecting on how modern or traditional these cultural manifestations are, for example, el Día de los Muertos being rooted in Mexico and then embraced in the USA

• 2

  obtaining information about a festival, experience, event or tourist site and writing a series of postcards in the voice of a journeying character, using guiding questions to plan, for example, ¿Dónde estás? ¿Te gusta? ¿Por qué o por qué no? ¿Qué te ha pasado hasta ahora? ¿Qué es sorprendente? ¿Qué has aprendido hasta ahora, sobre ti mismo o sobre los demás? ¿Qué vas a hacer?

• 3

  accessing a range of texts on travel to Spanish-speaking countries and writing a dot point ‘checklist’ or ‘to-do list’ for a real or imagined travel adventure, for example, obtener un pasaporte y una visa, planificar un itinerario, comprar boletos ...

• 4 listening to or reading First Nations Australians' stories in English, and creating a profile of them in Spanish
• 5

  watching a documentary on global issues such as el cambio climático or las redes sociales, and summarising the data in a graph or infographic to share with class

• 6

  analysing and comparing information obtained from a range of sources on topics of social and cultural interest, such as announcements, reports, interviews, and summarising and presenting information to peers in conversation, a shared website or class blog, for example, el cine latinoamericano comtemporáneo, el efecto del turismo en las Islas Galápagos or los refugiados en España, la expansión del español por el mundo or las expectativas familiares y culturales

• 7

  identifying different perspectives in texts such as in articles, reports or blogs, by distinguishing between facts and opinion, for example, regarding fiestas tradicionales

• 8 gathering information from a range of sources, including personal commentaries by Spanish-speaking peers and adults about social, historical, environmental issues or cultural aspects of Spanish-speaking communities, and using preferred mode of presentation to share information with others
• 9 responding to imaginative texts by modifying key elements, for example, incorporating a new character, event, humour or suspense, parodying an advertisement or devising an alternate ending to a story
• 10

  researching, presenting and taking a position on issues relating to contemporary topics such as Los efectos de las redes sociales en la vida de los jóvenes

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