ACL9LL8U01 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language

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

• • understanding that the written alphabet used by the Romans is the basis for the modern English alphabet
• • 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
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  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

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

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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: