AC9LS10U03 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.

reflect on and evaluate Spanish texts, using metalanguage to analyse language structures and features

Elaborations

• 1 developing metalanguage to extend discussion of grammatical features such as word order, tenses and subjunctive mood, and using terms such as ‘verbs’, ‘nouns’, ‘conditional’, ‘subjunctive’ and ‘simple past’
• 2 analysing and comparing different types of texts such as television dramas or news bulletins to demonstrate how language is used to create effects, for example, emotional impact or interest
• 3

  identifying common textual conventions, for example, the salutation in an email "Hola Luis", informal language in blogs, or rhetorical language in political pamphlets

• 4 identifying key features and functions that characterise different types of texts such as voicemail, slogans, informative articles or short stories, and reflecting on how these are used for effect
• 5 comparing the features and differences of spoken and written texts, for example, spoken versus print for advertising, face-to-face versus a scripted speech, a text message versus a formal letter

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