ACL9LCG10U02 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.

select and use vocabulary, grammatical structures and linguistic features of Classical Greek to interpret, translate, and respond to texts

Elaborations

• 1 applying expanded knowledge of vocabulary, grammar and problem-solving skills to translate compound sentences and complex sentences with nested clauses by completing information gap activities in extracts
• 2

  applying knowledge of -ω, contract and -μι verbs in all tenses, active and middle, indicative, imperative and infinitive forms

• 3

  applying knowledge of common irregular verbs, for example, oἶδα, ἒοικα

• 4 demonstrating a broader understanding of moods by developing charts and mind maps, including the subjunctive and optative, as appropriate
• 5

  applying knowledge of the use of participles with the genitive absolute and the accusative absolute by completing a quiz, for example, ἡμέρας γενομένης, ἔδοξεν ταῖς κόραις πρὸς τὸν κρήνην βαίνειν and δέον τὴν πόλιν ἀμύνεσθαι, οἱ ἄνδρες τὰ ὅπλα ἔφερον

• 6 applying knowledge of the passive voice in all applicable tenses, including first and second aorist and future
• 7 developing a broader understanding of clauses, including fearing, conditional and indefinite clauses
• 8 understanding the structure and use of indirect statements with ὅτι, the infinitive or the participle
• 9

  distinguishing between the simple infinitive and recognising the use of the articular infinitive, for example, ἀγαθὸς εἰς τὸ λέγειν τε καὶ πράττειν

• 10

  identifying verbs that take supplementary participles by completing tables, for example, ἔτυχον παροῦσαι αἱ γυναῖκες/οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ἐφαίνοντο οὐ βουλόμενοι ἀγορεύειν

• 11

  applying knowledge of the comparative and superlative degrees of common irregular adjectives, for example, ἀγαθός/ἀμείνων/ἄριστος, ἀγαθός/βελτίων/βέλτιστος, ἀγαθός/κρείττων/κράτιστος

• 12 applying knowledge of a wider range of indefinite pronouns and adjectives
• 13

  identifying the verbal adjective in -τέος, for example, οὐ λεκτέοι εἰσὶν οἱ λόγοι

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