AC9LS8EC04 Year 7 Languages

AC9LS8EC04 – Year 7 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in Spanish

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between languages

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

locate and process information and ideas in familiar spoken, written and multimodal texts, responding in ways appropriate to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• identifying details and key points of information from authentic resources or teacher-created texts, for example, using weather reports, news/sport reports, real estate descriptions or menus, and deciding which points to incorporate in a new text type such as a floor plan or a promo poster for foods from a menu
• locating, classifying and summarising information collected from sources such as menus, notices, timetables, packaging or retail catalogues, for example, creating a shopping list and recording prices of items, noting vegetarian options on a menu, classifying items by colour, shape, type, etc.
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conducting simple surveys or interviews with others about familiar topics such as pets, likes/dislikes, hobbies, then interpreting the results and recording in a graph, table or graphic, for example, Siete personas en la clase tienen gato, 90% tiene perros
• listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories in English and responding to them in spoken or written Spanish
• identifying key points of information in short spoken or recorded texts such as phone messages, announcements or television advertisements, and transposing them to note form for own reference or to communicate to others
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identifying and describing characters and events in a movie, story or comic such as Manolito Gafotas, by responding to structured questions, for example, ¿Cómo se llama el chico de verdad? ¿Por qué tiene ese mote?, ¿Cuántos años tiene? ¿Cómo es su familia? ¿Quiénes son sus amigos?
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navigating secure online applications such as digital maps or timetables to find out about transport and services in a Spanish-speaking country, using information in a simulated conversation with a taxi driver or person in a hotel, for example, ¿Dónde está la farmacia? Está enfrente del banco. Toma la primera calle a la derecha.

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locating specific information about a person, place or event, describing characters ¿Quién? ¿Qué?, events ¿Qué pasa? ¿Cuándo?, settings ¿Dónde?, and key ideas ¿Por qué?, and establishing sequence, for example, primero … luego … después … por fin/finalmente …

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANSPA7_10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students use Spanish language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions, and recognise familiar gestures, questions and instructions in exchanges. They recognise relationships between spoken and written forms. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in Spanish or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language, and modelled sentence and grammatical structures to create texts. Students approximate pronunciation and intonation in spoken Spanish. They demonstrate understanding that Spanish has conventions and rules for non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They comment on aspects of Spanish and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that the Spanish language is connected with culture and identity, and that this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.