ACL9LCLF8E03 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.

develop and apply strategies to interpret and translate [Classical Language] texts to convey meaning in English

Elaborations

• 1 considering multiple meanings of vocabulary by using dictionaries and electronic translation tools, and making appropriate selections according to context
• 2 listening to simple sentences in [Classical Language] and using aural cues to infer meaning, such as tone, inflection, emphasis and signpost words
• 3 using known vocabulary, in [Classical Language] or English, and context, to deduce the meaning of unknown words
• 4 exploring the effect of using the variety of English translations for verb tenses
• 5 determining the general sense of texts through initial holistic reading, by identifying familiar people, vocabulary, places or topics and contextualising new vocabulary
• 6 collaborating with peers to edit joint translations and to compare and discuss the merits of different translations of the same text

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