AC9LV8EC04 Year 7 Languages

AC9LV8EC04 – Year 7 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in Vietnamese

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

• locating and summarising information from a range of sources, such as notices, results of class surveys, announcements and reports, and using tools such as tables, charts and concept maps to organise and sequence information
• gathering information about aspects of Vietnam, for example, weather, vegetation, wildlife or popular foods and drinks, and using the information in new ways, for example, creating a poster or multimodal presentation to promote travel to Vietnam
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comparing details from a range of texts about special occasions and ceremonies, and discussing culture-specific terms and representations, for example, how Tết is celebrated in Vietnam and Australia
• listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories in English and responding to them in spoken or written Vietnamese
• listening for key facts in short spoken or recorded texts, such as phone messages, announcements or television advertisements, transposing them to note form, and communicating to others
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identifying and describing settings, characters, events and key ideas in imaginative texts by asking and responding to questions such as ở đâu? khi nào? ai? and làm gì? or by producing a profile of a character or a timeline of events
• reading and viewing imaginative texts such as folktale stories, legendary films and Vietnamese photo series, and performing scenes that illustrate aspects of the characters’ attitudes, personality or reactions, the story’s ending or the writer’s messages

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• illustrating an extract from a text by selecting images such as a picture, colour, symbol or emoticon to reflect the content, mood or key message of the text, and explaining the reasons for selections
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listening to Vietnamese versions of English-language songs, for example, Chúc Mừng Sinh Nhật, Xin chào Vietnam, and comparing aspects of each version, such as language use and cultural representations
• interpreting the actions and behaviours of characters in multimedia texts such as cartoons, video clips or films (without listening to the original scripted dialogue) to imagine the text content and participants’ relationships, and creating the imagined conversations between participants
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interviewing family or local Vietnamese-speaking community members, or using secure online resources to research aspects of Vietnamese cultural practice, history and natural environment, for example, cúng ông bà, cúng giao thừa, tourist attractions such as Vinh Hạ Long, phố cổ Hội An and using this information in their own short reports

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANVIE7_10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students use Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese 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 tones, pronunciation and intonation in spoken Vietnamese. They demonstrate understanding that Vietnamese has conventions and rules for non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They comment on aspects of Vietnamese and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that the Vietnamese language is connected with culture and identity, and that this connection is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.