AC9LS10EU02
Years 9 to 10
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AC9LS10EU02 | Years 9 to 10 Spanish: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor select and use structures and features of the Spanish grammatical and writing systems to enhance meaning and create spoken, written and multimodal texts
Years 7 to 10 sequence
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 9 to 10 Spanish · Years 7 to 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration knowing when to omit definite and indefinite articles, and adjusting for gender-change cases, for example, quiero ser ingeniera; el capital versus la capital
- • Elaboration using collective nouns such as gente and familia, and noticing the use of singular verbs, for example, La gente en Australia pasa mucho tiempo al aire libre. Mi familia tiene una casa en la playa.
- • Elaboration noticing some changes in meaning when the adjective precedes the noun, for example, Una gran casa/Una casa grande, Un solo perro/Un perro solo
- • Elaboration using comparatives and superlatives, including some irregular forms, for example, mejor que ..., peor que ..., el mayor, el menor, más ... que, menos ... que, el más ..., ... ísimo/a, tan ... como
- • Elaboration understanding and using indefinite adjectives and pronouns, for example, alguno/a/os/as, ninguno/a/os/as, otros/as, todos/as, alguien, nadie, nada, algo, todo, noticing the constructions with a double negative, for example, No hay nadie en clase, No tenemos nada
- • Elaboration using possessive and demonstrative pronouns such as aquel es el tuyo, este es el mío, and neutral demonstratives ¿Qué es esto? Me gustó aquello que dijo.
- • Elaboration understanding the use of relative pronouns in familiar contexts, for example, que, el/la/los/las que, quien/es, el/la cual, los/las cuales, donde
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- • Elaboration using modelled structures that contain direct and indirect objects, for example, ella compró flores para él, ella se las compró
- • Elaboration recognising different past tense forms such as preterite, imperfect, and past perfect, and comparing the uses with English past tense forms, for example, Marcos nació en Filipinas, él llamaba a su hermana cuando la necesitaba …, hemos estudiado los tiempos pasados
- • Elaboration understanding and using regular and irregular forms of the preterite/pretérito indefinido, for example, canté, bebí, escribí, and fui, estuve; and temporal markers such as ..., ayer …, el año pasado … hace 2 años
- • Elaboration understanding and using the immediate future, –ir a + infinitive, for example, yo voy a ir al concierto con mis amigos
- • Elaboration recognising future and conditional tenses and their conjugational patterns, for example, mañana iremos de excursión al zoo, me gustaría visitar México
- • Elaboration elaborating on ideas or providing additional details with prepositions, for example, por, para, con, sin, hacia
- • Elaboration understanding the function of impersonal expressions such as se necesita ..., se habla ..., se dice ..., se puede ..., hay que ...
- • Elaboration using cohesive devices in complex sentences, for example, por lo tanto, además, sin embargo, al contrario de, de la misma manera
- • Elaboration forming adverbs from adjectives, for example, normalmente, seguramente, probablemente
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