ACL9LCG8U02 | Years 7 to 8 Classical Greek: Understanding systems of language

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor develop knowledge of the vocabulary, structures and features of Classical Greek grammatical systems to understand, translate and respond to texts

Years 7 to 10 sequence

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding systems of language

This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 7 to 8 Classical Greek · Years 7 to 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

• Elaboration using the definite article to identify the number, gender and case of nouns, for example, αἱ ὁδοί, τούς δικαστάς
• Elaboration demonstrating that the definite article, nouns, pronouns and adjectives inflect to show number and case by completing tables, for example, ὁ ἡμέτερος πατήρ, τὰ μικρὰ ἄροτρα
• Elaboration identifying the forms and functions of the nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive and dative cases of the definite article, nouns and pronouns by developing charts and mind maps, for example, τῶν πολιτῶν πολλοί (partitive genitive), τῇ ὑστεραίᾳ (dative of time when)
• Elaboration recognising that Greek words have variable endings that indicate their grammatical function in a sentence
• Elaboration recognising -ω verbs and contract verbs -εω, -αω in the present, future, active and middle, for example, λύω/λύομαι, φιλῶ/φιλοῦμαι, τιμῶ/τιμῶμαι
• Elaboration using the present imperative, active and middle, for example, σπεῦδε
• Elaboration using the infinitive and participles, active and middle, in the present, future, for example, παύειν/παύων, παύσειν/παύσων

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• Elaboration using the irregular verb ‘to be’ in the present, future and imperfect tenses, for example, εἰμἰ/ἔσομαι/ἦν
• Elaboration recognising the use of common prefixes to form compound words, for example, ἐκβαίνω, εἰσβαίνω
• Elaboration identifying the 3 declensions of nouns and adjectives, including variants and common irregular forms, by completing a quiz, for example, ἠ ναῦς, πολύς/πολλή/πολύ
• Elaboration recognising agreement between adjectives and nouns in number, gender and case by highlighting the appropriate parts of words, for example, ἠ μακρὰ ὁδός, τοῦ ἀληθοῦς λόγου
• Elaboration recognising the comparative and superlative degrees of regular adjectives, for example, ἀνδρεῖος, ἀνδρειότερος, ἀνδρειότατος
• Elaboration identifying cardinal numbers εἷς/μία/ἕν to χίλοι/αι/α and μὐριοι/αι/α and ordinal numbers πρῶτος/η/ον to χιλιοστός, μυριοστός
• Elaboration identifying the forms and application of personal, interrogative, indefinite, demonstrative and relative pronouns by completing information gap activities, for example, ἐγώ/σύ, ἡμεῖς/ὑμεῖς, τίς/τί, τις/τι, οὗτος/αὕτη/τοῦτο, ὅς/ἥ/ὅ
• Elaboration recognising prepositional phrases using the accusative, genitive and dative cases, for example, πρὸς τὴν πόλιν, πρὸς τῶν θεῶν, πρὸς τῇ νηί
• Elaboration recognising positive, comparative and superlative adverbs from adjectives, for example, ἀληθῶς/ἀληθέστερον/ἀληθέστατα

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Achievement standard statements this supports

Achievement standardASLANCLGY78_7804Years 7 to 8 Classical Greek · Years 7 to 10 sequenceThey demonstrate understanding that Classical Greek has conventions and rules for spoken and written communication.See it on the standard page →

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