AC9LV8U03 Year 7 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.

reflect on similarities and differences between Vietnamese and English language structures and features, using metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1 identifying and comparing language features in Vietnamese and English texts, for example, use of first-person point of view, and descriptive and emotive language in personal recounts and diary entries
• 2

  extending understanding of metalanguage to communicate in Vietnamese and English about word order, verbs and adjectives, for example, Tính từ luôn đi sau danh từ.

• 3 exploring the way content is developed in different types of texts in Vietnamese and English, and how ideas and information are structured, for example, identifying headings, paragraphs, topic sentences, elaborations, topic/idea shifts
• 4 applying their understanding of key features of familiar types of Vietnamese and English texts to understand unfamiliar content, for example, in print and digital public announcements, commercials, advertisements or itineraries
• 5 examining structural features of a range of informative and imaginative text types in both Vietnamese and English texts, for example, identifying elements such as paragraphing or conjunctions to sequence and link ideas for cohesion
• 6 teaching younger students or non-Vietnamese speakers about some key differences between Vietnamese and English language, using support resources such as flash cards, diagrams, charts or tables
• 7 comparing spoken and written Vietnamese and English texts, for example, a spoken and a print advertisement, or an oral conversation and an email, and explaining how mode relates to linguistic structures and features, and how this affects meaning

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