AC9LV8EU03 Year 7 Languages

AC9LV8EU03 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding systems of language

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

compare Vietnamese language structures and features with English, using familiar metalanguage

Elaborations

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discussing aspects of grammar, using metalanguage in Vietnamese or English, for example, danh từ/noun, động từ/verb, tính từ/adjective/, chủ ngữ/subject, vị ngữ/predicate
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identifying the audience and purpose of short familiar texts in Vietnamese and English, such as messages, notes, signs, instructions, personal emails/letters, advertisements, announcements, recipes, legendary stories and songs, for example, Xin Chào Việt Nam, Chúc Mừng Năm Mới, chuyện Tấm Cám, Sơn Tinh Thuỷ Tinh
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recognising structural features of familiar personal, informative and imaginative Vietnamese and English texts, for example, the date on diary entries and letters, titles for stories, and greetings in emails or conversations, for example, ngày …., tháng …, năm … nhật ký thân mến, Chào bạn, hẹn găp lại, sẽ viết tiếp cho nhật ký
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understanding that personal pronouns in Vietnamese do not change according to their grammatical function as in English, for example, Anh ấy biết tên tôi (He knows my name), Tôi biết anh â (I know him), Kim đã giúp tôi (Kim helped me)
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exploring and using pluralisation of nouns, for example, hai cái áo and các/nhiều/những căn nhà, making connections and comparisons between Vietnamese and English
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understanding the position of nouns and adjectives in Vietnamese compared with English, for example, một học sinh giỏi versus ‘a good student’
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discussing ways in which different grammatical elements are used for different textual purposes, for example, the use of imperatives in a set of instructions such as Đứng lên. Ngồi xuống. Mở tập ra. Nghe và lặp lại and comparing this with English

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translating information such as menus, school timetables, directions, and school and public signs or notices, and recognising and explaining similarities and differences in language structures, for example, cơm chiên (fried rice), trạm xe lửa (train station), Ngày Làm Sạch Nước Úc (Clean Up Australia Day)

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.