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AC9LV8U02: Year 7 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LV8U02 Year 7 Languages

AC9LV8U02 – 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

apply understanding of grammatical structures and expressions to compose and respond to texts

Elaborations

  • understanding and applying punctuation in writing, or adhering to punctuation conventions in reading, for example, full stops, commas, exclamation marks, brackets, apostrophes, speech marks and question marks
  • exploring homonyms encountered in texts, for example, ‘cow’ or ‘to crawl’, ăn ‘eat’ or ‘win’, đỗ/đậu ‘pass the exam’ or ‘bean’, bàn table’ or ‘discuss’, lợi ‘benefit’ or ‘gum’, đá ‘kịck’ or ‘ice’

  • understanding the use of được and bị for positive and negative meanings, for example, Em được điểm tốt. Em được thầy cô khen. Em bị bệnh. Cành cây bị gãy.

  • understanding and using verbs to express modality such as nên, cần and phải, for example, Các em nên chăm học. Chúng ta cần không khí để thở, Học sinh phải mặc đồng phục khi đi học

  • using direct and indirect speech conventions, for example, Ba mẹ nói với tôi: ‘Con nên chăm học’, and Ba mẹ bảo tôi nên chăm học

  • using a range of expressions for indefinite quantities, for example, hàng ngàn, triệu triệu, vô số, hàng hà sa số, biết bao nhiêu là …

  • constructing a range of sentences in affirmative, negative, interrogative and imperative forms for different purposes, for example, Tuyệt vời!, Nhanh tay lên!, Sao chậm quá vậy?, Lạnh quá đi!

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  • differentiating interrogative forms with tag questions and using them according to context, for example, Em thích ăn cơm chiên không? is a yes/no question to discover whether the other person likes fried rice and Em thích ăn cơm chiên phải không? is a tag question to confirm that the other person likes fried rice

  • recognising differences in Vietnamese and English responses to negative tag questions to avoid misinterpretation, for example, in Vietnamese the response to the question Em chưa làm bài tập về nhà phải không? “You haven’t done your homework, have you?” would be Dạ phải. Em chưa làm? “Yes, I haven’t”, while in English it would be “No, I haven’t”

  • recognising the purpose and effect of exclamatory sentences as opposed to statements, for example, the statement Hôm nay Lan đi học sớm simply states that Lan came to school early today, while the exclamatory sentence Hôm nay Lan đi học sớm thế/vậy! may suggest surprise or irony

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANVIEF10Y78
Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 8, students initiate and maintain interactions in Vietnamese language in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to a range of interests and experiences. They use Vietnamese to collaborate and problem-solve, and adjust language in response to others. They interpret information, ideas and opinions in texts. They demonstrate understanding of similarities and differences between languages, in both familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts, by adjusting and reorganising responses. They select and use vocabulary sentence structures, and expressions to create texts. Students apply the conventions of spoken Vietnamese to develop fluency. They demonstrate understanding that spoken, written and multimodal texts use different language conventions, structures and features to convey meaning. They comment on structures and features of Vietnamese text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how the Vietnamese language, culture and identity are interconnected, and compare this with their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.