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ACL9LL10U02 Years 9 to 10 Languages

ACARA website code: AC9LL10U02

ACL9LL10U02 | Years 9 to 10 Latin: Understanding systems of language

Content Descriptor

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

Years 7 to 10 sequence

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 9 to 10 Latin · Years 7 to 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

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