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ACL9LCLF8U02: Year 7 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
ACL9LCLF8U02 Year 7 Languages

ACL9LCLF8U02 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

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.

Content Descriptor

develop knowledge of the vocabulary and structures and features of [Classical Language] grammatical systems to understand, translate and respond to texts

Elaborations

  • • identifying parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, and their functions in texts to determine meaning, by completing a quiz
  • • identifying endings of irregular verbs in different tenses and forms
  • • recognising the comparative and superlative degrees of regular adjectives and adverbs
  • • exploring the concepts of verb number, person and tense, and identifying the endings of regular verbs agreements
  • • recognising prepositional phrases including different forms and meanings
  • • using [Classical Language] word order to deduce meaning in texts, and interpreting compound sentences with conjunctions, by completing information-gap activities

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANFCLY78
Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 8, students use their knowledge of [Classical Language] to interpret texts and sources, and respond to information about ancient [Country/City] society. They develop strategies to translate [Classical Language] texts into English, identifying familiar vocabulary and language structures and features to interpret meaning. Students apply [Classical Language] sound-script relationships and use restored pronunciation when reading familiar texts aloud. They demonstrate understanding that [Classical Language] has conventions and rules for spoken and written communication. They understand that [Classical Language] has influenced English vocabulary and comment on language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that language, texts and artefacts from Ancient [Country/City] are connected with culture and identity, and explore the relationships between language(s), culture(s) and identity.