ACL9LCG10U03 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.

explain how Classical Greek vocabulary, structures and features extend understanding of English, using metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1 investigating and explaining the effect of word order in Classical Greek and English in producing emphasis and tone, for example, indignation, anger and suspense
• 2 reflecting on the particular use of tenses in Classical Greek and making comparisons with English, such as use of aspect, vivid use of the present in indirect speech
• 3 identifying Classical Greek roots in English scientific, technical, legal and academic terminology, for example, pathogen, symmetry, geology, metropolis, gigabyte, nanotechnology
• 4 applying knowledge of Classical Greek to understand the formation of English words, for example, criterion/criteria, macro-economics
• 5 recognising terms in English that are hybrids of Classical Greek and Latin, for example, metalanguage, quantum physics, teleconference
• 6 recognising the influence of literary genres such as epic, tragedy, comedy, epigram, ode, history and myth, in order to understand different text types in English
• 7 analysing language features in Classical Greek and English used to influence the intended audience, such as imagery and rhetorical devices

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