ACL9LL8E02 – Year 7 Languages: Accessing and responding to Latin texts

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.

Elaborations

• • creating posters or digital displays with annotations in English or words and simple phrases in Latin to share information about daily routine such as family life, education, food, entertainment, exercise, bathing and hygiene in the Roman world
• • reading stories about the daily lives of the people of Ancient Rome and recreating their everyday experiences, for example, through role-play, diary entries or an imaginative animated cartoon
• • creating maps, plans and diagrams using labels in Latin or English to demonstrate the purpose and function of Roman structures and institutions, for example, the Roman forum, houses, baths, roads and aqueducts
• • acting out stories such as Romulus and Remus, Horatius guarding the bridge, or the Labours of Hercules to convey Roman attitudes and values
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  presenting short Latin texts orally, such as stories, plays, dialogues or songs, for example, singing songs such as gaudeamus igitur; duc, duc navem duc

• • responding to prompts to communicate in simple spoken and written Latin, for example, answering questions based on a text or creating short sentences in Latin
• • producing news reports, blogs or documentaries about significant events in Roman history, for example, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the fire of Rome, the reign of an emperor

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: