ACL9LL8U01 Year 7 Languages

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.

understand and begin to apply the phonological and orthographic systems of Latin

Elaborations

• 1 understanding that the written alphabet used by the Romans is the basis for the modern English alphabet
• 2 discussing Roman numerals and naming conventions, such as the use of capital letters for names and abbreviated forms, for example, the use of M for Marcus
• 3

  matching script to sound using the restored pronunciation, for example, pronouncing long and short vowels, diphthongs, the consonants u/v, c and h, and distinguishing i as a vowel and as a consonant, for example, intrat, ianua

• 4 listening to and reproducing familiar and unfamiliar words, phrases and simple texts in Latin
• 5

  using the spoken stress of Latin, and dramatic expression appropriate to the tone and purpose of a text, for example, furcifer, eheu, euge, ita vero, cachinnans

• 6 reading aloud or reciting, individually or in a class group, for example, performing a short play in Latin

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