ACL9LCLF10U03 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 Language] vocabulary, structures and features extend understanding of English, using metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1 recognising connections between grammatical structures and features in [Classical Language] and English, and applying knowledge to extend grammatical understanding of the English language
• 2 reflecting on the particular use of tenses in [Classical Language] and making comparisons with English
• 3 identifying [Classical Language] roots in English medical, scientific, technical, legal and academic terminology
• 4 explaining how in both [Classical Language] and English, the coherence of complex texts relies on devices that signal text structure and guide readers
• 5 analysing language features in [Classical Language] and English, such as imagery and rhetorical devices, that are used to influence the intended audience
• 6 investigating and explaining the effect of word order in [Classical Language] and English in producing emphasis and tone, for example, indignation, anger and suspense

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