AC9LT10EC06 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.

create spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts, selecting vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures and textual conventions for familiar and some unfamiliar contexts and purposes, to engage different audiences

Elaborations

• 1 designing a travel guide for young Turkish visitors planning a trip to Australia including information about which cities to visit, where to stay, ideal time of the year to travel, etc.
• 2 creating texts to inform or promote events or community action, for example, a poster or web post to advertise a multicultural evening or a letter to a community newspaper to highlight a school fundraiser
• 3 creating an interactive presentation for younger students, friends or members of extended families to reflect their personal language learning experience
• 4 writing a journal entry, or contributing to a school newsletter in Turkish reflecting on the impact of a visit to a significant cultural location on a First Nations Country/Place, and, with permission, referring to cultural knowledge of the site
• 5 explaining a procedure to a specified audience such as older or younger people, using supporting images, actions and gestures to highlight key elements and explain key terms, for example, cooking instructions, giving directions of places
• 6 creating bilingual texts such as community information leaflets, menus, timetables or instructions which cater to the needs of members of both Turkish and English speakers of the community
• 7 creating bilingual texts for specific audiences, for example, songs or games for younger learners of Turkish, a schedule for a multicultural event or recording bilingual directions for a virtual tour of the school campus, noticing how information and representation is differently shaped in Turkish and English
• 8 composing and presenting a cultural exhibition or performance for members of the school community, providing English-language support in the form of captions or recorded or live commentaries
• 9

  writing accounts of significant people, events, influences or milestones in their lives, for example, Türkiye’ye ilk ziyaret, Avustralya’ya geliş, sünnet düğünü, ilk iş görüşmesi, Türk konserine gitmek

• 10 creating stories about fantasy characters or contexts, using appropriate descriptive and expressive language to engage younger learners
• 11

  creating and performing skits that respond to stimulus themes and involve characterisation, context and dramatic tension, for example, kuşak çatışması aile problemleri, alışveriş, arkadaşlık

• 12 using digital resources to create entertaining cartoon characters associated with school or home contexts
• 13 composing spoken and written versions of a particular text type such as an instruction or a dialogue, to demonstrate how text mode determines selection of language features and text structure
• 14 performing scenarios that involve challenging situations or intercultural encounters, using gestures, expression and props to build mood and explore relationships and emotions
• 15 creating texts such as photo stories, plays, cartoons, comic strips, animations or video clips with voice-overs or subtitles, and experimenting with elements such as humour, pathos or suspense

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