ACL9LL10U02 Year 9 Languages

ACL9LL10U02 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding systems of language

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.

Content Descriptor

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

Elaborations

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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
• 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
• using metalanguage to describe structures and features of Latin grammatical systems, for example, mood, voice and tense
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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
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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)
• 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
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understanding the use of different forms of verbs, such as principal parts, infinitives, participles, gerunds and gerundives, for example, portavisse, clamans, amandum, delenda

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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
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applying understanding of the inflection of first, second and third declension adjectives, for example, laeta/laetus and tristis, and analysing noun-adjective agreement
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applying knowledge of the degree of regular and irregular adjectives and adverbs, for example, stulta, stultior, stultissima; malus, peior, pessimus
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applying understanding of prepositional phrases, including cases followed by prepositions and changes in word order, for example, medio in mare
• applying knowledge of the forms and use of a range of pronouns such as reflexive, emphatic, indefinite and interrogative
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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
• using cardinal numbers 1–100 and ordinal numbers 1–20
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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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANLATY910

Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students use their knowledge of Latin to interpret and analyse information from a range of texts and sources about ancient Roman society and culture. They apply strategies to translate and interpret Latin texts into English and demonstrate understanding of how language conveys cultural meaning. Students apply Latin sound-script relationships and use restored pronunciation when reading familiar and unfamiliar texts aloud. They select and apply Latin grammatical conventions and rules when translating and responding to texts. They explain how Latin has influenced English vocabulary and analyse language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate understanding that the language, texts and artefacts from Ancient Rome are connected with culture and identity, and reflect on the interrelationship of language(s), culture(s) and identity.