ACL9LL8U02 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.

develop knowledge of the vocabulary, structures and features of Latin grammatical systems to understand, translate and respond to texts

Elaborations

• 1 identifying parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, and their functions in texts, to determine meaning by completing a quiz, for example, identifying which noun is the subject of the verb
• 2

  recognising noun inflections for case and number in first, second and third declensions by completing tables, for example, amicus, amicum; villa, villae, and exploring the use of cases to convey meaning

• 3

  recognising that nouns in Latin have gender, for example, dominus is masculine, villa is feminine, atrium is neuter

• 4

  exploring the concepts of verb number, person and tense, and identifying the endings of regular verbs in different persons and tenses, by highlighting appropriate part of words, for example, clamat, clamant; portavi, portavit

• 5

  recognising other forms of verbs, such as present infinitives and imperatives, for example, portare; clama, clamate!

• 6

  identifying endings of irregular verbs in different tenses and forms, for example, sum, possum, volo, nolo

• 7

  identifying first, second and third declension adjectives by developing charts and mind maps, for example, laeta/laetus; tristis, and exploring the concept of noun-adjective agreement

• 8

  recognising the comparative and superlative degree of regular adjectives, for example, iratus, iratior, iratissimus

• 9

  recognising prepositional phrases, including different forms and meanings, for example, e villa, ex urbe, in villa, in villam

• 10 identifying the forms of pronouns, such as personal, relative and demonstrative
• 11

  using Latin word order to deduce meaning in texts and interpret compound sentences using conjunctions by completing information gap activities, for example, canis intrat sed non latrat

• 12

  identifying cardinal 1–20 and ordinal numbers, for example, unus, primus, and Roman numerals, for example, I, V, X, L, C, M

• 13 using appropriate metalanguage to describe structures and features of Latin grammatical systems, for example, declension, conjugation

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