ACL9LL10U03 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.

explain how Latin vocabulary, structures and features extend understanding of English, using metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1 recognising connections between grammatical structures and features in Latin and English, and applying knowledge to extend grammatical understanding of the English language, for example, use of participles and gerunds
• 2 identifying Latin roots in English medical, scientific and technical terminology, for example, genus, species, computer, data and super conductor, and exploring how Latin is used to coin terms for new technology and discoveries, such as internet, Trojan (horse), forum and virus
• 3 recognising terms in English that are hybrids of Latin and Classical Greek, for example, metalanguage, quantum physics and teleconference
• 4 examining Latin expressions, abbreviations and words that are used in fields such as law, business and education, for example, de facto, non sequitur, agenda, forum and curriculum
• 5

  explaining how in both Latin and English, the coherence of complex texts relies on devices that signal text structure and guide readers, for example, primo … deinde … tandem, non solum … verum etiam

• 6

  analysing how Latin and English use linguistic features and word order to influence the audience, such as the contrast of short and periodic sentences to persuade and the intentional use of word order to produce emphasis and tone, for example, qualis vir? conclamant omnes, miser Catulle

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