AC9LV10EC06 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 presenting information in spoken or written texts targeting particular audiences, and aligning language choice and text structure to purpose and topics, for example, announcing and promoting an event, reporting on a favourite song or short video clip, or creating a virtual tour or multimodal presentation to introduce the school to Year 7 students
• 2

  creating tourist brochures or itineraries for young Australian travellers to Vietnam, supplying key words, phrases and information about cultural practices, for example, Bao nhiêu tiền? Phòng vệ sinh ở đâu? chở tôi đến nhà hàng/khách sạn/sân bay, xin lỗi, cám ơn

• 3 composing bilingual texts for specific audiences and purposes, for example, a game for young Vietnamese learners, invitations to a class/social event, posters for a performance, or a presentation about the school for a visiting group of exchange students
• 4 writing a journal entry, or contributing to a school newsletter in Vietnamese 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

  recreating imaginative stories in different formats including new aspects to the text, such as a new character or setting or an alternative ending, and using descriptive and emotive language to engage the audience, for example, tuyệt vời, hiền lành, duyên dáng; buồn, vui, thú vị, nhàm chán

• 6

  writing a real or imagined autobiography, reflecting on significant people, events, influences or milestones in their lives, for example, Năm 1984, một chiếc tàu đã vớt tôi và đưa tôi đến Úc.

• 7 creating a range of texts to entertain particular audiences, for example, songs, skits, cartoons, video clips, graphic stories and children’s books for young Vietnamese learners
• 8 creating and performing skits that involve characterisation, context and dramatic tension, for example, plays demonstrating a generation gap, family or friendship issues
• 9 composing and presenting a cultural exhibition or performance in Vietnamese for members of the school community, providing English language support in the form of captions or recorded/live commentaries

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