ACL9LL10U02 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.

select and use vocabulary, grammatical structures and linguistic features of Latin to interpret, translate and respond to texts

Elaborations

• 1

  using a range of methods to deduce the meaning of unknown Latin words, such as by recognising the construction of compound words, for example, felix, infelix; loquor, colloquor

• 2 applying understanding of parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs and their functions in texts to determine meaning by completing information gap activities, for example, recognising noun and adjective agreement
• 3 using metalanguage to describe structures and features of Latin grammatical systems, for example, mood, voice and tense
• 4

  applying knowledge of noun inflections for case and number in the first to fifth declensions, and analysing case usage of nouns in all 5 declensions, by developing charts and mind maps, for example, partitive genitive quid novi? and the locative case

• 5

  understanding the relationship between noun gender and declension, for example, most first declension nouns are feminine, and acknowledging that nouns may have unexpected genders, for example, first declension agricola (m), second declension humus (f)

• 6 applying understanding of verb number, person, tense, mood and voice by completing a quiz, for example, indicative, subjunctive and imperative moods, active and passive voice
• 7

  understanding the use of different forms of verbs, such as principal parts, infinitives, participles, gerunds and gerundives, for example, portavisse, clamans, amandum, delenda

• 8

  applying knowledge of the endings of irregular and deponent verbs in different tenses and forms by completing tables, for example, eo, ire, ii/ivi; loquor, loqui, locutus sum

• 9

  applying understanding of the inflection of first, second and third declension adjectives, for example, laeta/laetus and tristis, and analysing noun-adjective agreement

• 10

  applying knowledge of the degree of regular and irregular adjectives and adverbs, for example, stulta, stultior, stultissima; malus, peior, pessimus

• 11

  applying understanding of prepositional phrases, including cases followed by prepositions and changes in word order, for example, medio in mare

• 12 applying knowledge of the forms and use of a range of pronouns such as reflexive, emphatic, indefinite and interrogative
• 13

  understanding the range of subordinate clauses used in complex sentences to convey sophisticated ideas, for example, relative, causal and temporal, and recognising common conjunctions used, for example, cum, ut

• 14 using cardinal numbers 1–100 and ordinal numbers 1–20
• 15

  understanding conventions of the Roman calendar and the use of numbers to express distance, capacity, time and price, for example, duo milia passuum, quinquaginta denariis

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