AC9LV10U03 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 Vietnamese texts, using metalanguage to analyse language structures and features

Elaborations

• 1 analysing how language choices help achieve particular purposes and effects, for example, descriptive language to promote a product, evaluative language to reflect on an experience or to review a literary work, persuasive language to influence audience, or humorous techniques to entertain
• 2

  identifying appropriate salutations, depending on their personal relationship or social ranking, in specific text types such as emails, speeches or interviews, for example, Kính thưa … /Thưa …, …thân mến/thương mến, kính chào/chào …

• 3 explaining their selection of vocabulary and grammatical and textual features in terms of their intended purpose and audience when composing texts such as emails, songs, slogans or public signs
• 4 understanding and transforming texts to suit different purposes (to persuade, entertain, etc.), different audiences (children, adolescents, Vietnamese people, Australians, etc.), and different types of texts (articles, reports, speeches, etc.)
• 5

  comparing the meaning and use of Vietnamese and English conjunctions, such as càng … càng = ‘the more … the more …’ or ‘more and more’, vừa … vừa … = ‘both … and’, chẳng những … mà còn = ‘not only … but also’, không … mà cũng không = ‘neither … nor’, and using them in own speech and writing

• 6

  identifying language features and cultural references that contribute to the overall meaning or purpose of texts, for example, a rhetorical question such as Chẳng lẽ chúng ta chịu bó tay sao? to call for action, or truyền thống tôn sư trọng đạo to promote the value of education

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