AC9LS8U01 Year 7 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.

apply knowledge of conventions of spoken Spanish to enhance fluency, and to respond to and create texts in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

• 1

  distinguishing nuances in pronunciation of some consonants according to vowel combinations, for example, jardín, garage, gente, agua and gas, and the double consonants ll and rr compared with the single l and r

• 2

  using the rhythms of the Spanish language, including intonation, tone and stress, to increase fluency and enhance expression, for example, No compro nunca en esa tienda versus ¿No compró nunca en esa tienda?

• 3

  recognising where to place stress in extended sentences, for example, Vámonos ya para el concierto de Rosalía. Ven aquí y te enseñaremos a bailar salsa.

• 4

  recognising that written Spanish has only 3 double consonant combinations, cc, ll and rr, for example, acción, llover, corrección

• 5

  applying pronunciation rules to common tongue twisters such as Tres tristes tigres tragaban trigo en un trigal

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