The state of the nation - AT
Students adopted the persona of the Federal Treasurer to prepare an address to the National Press Club on living standards in Australia. In preparation for this task, class discussion was used to determine the questions to be answered in the address. …
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Daily Routine - AT
Students were asked to write a journal entry about a typical day at school using verbs and expressions learned in class. Students were then asked to present an oral description of their daily routine to class. This task took place at the end of a unit …
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La mia famiglia – l’albero genealogico - AT
Students completed a unit of work on the family, learning grammar, sentence structures, expressions and vocabulary needed to describe one’s family. Students were then asked to create a family tree and write a description of family members. Students then …
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Animal Storybook - AT
Students were asked to create a children’s number book showing animals engaged in various activities. Students were to include: a variety of adjectives and apply the rules of agreement with nouns regular and irregular present tense verbs the time …
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Animale smarrito - AT
Students had completed a module of work on pets and agreement of adjectives with nouns. Students were asked to create a notice about a lost pet. In the notice students were to include a photo of lost animal, name and description of animal and information …
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Animale stranissimo - AT
Students had completed a unit of work learning about animals and the adjectives and expressions to describe the physical attributes of animals. Students had learnt subject, verb, noun, adjective word order and agreement in Italian. Students were asked …
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Di che nazionalità sei? - AT
Students had completed a unit of work where they learnt to describe themselves and others using and agreeing adjectives. They learned to use the present tense to express nationalities and languages spoken, likes and dislikes and give general information …
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La mia scuola - AT
Students were asked to write an article on their school life and discuss the positive and negative aspects of their school.
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La moda e le stagioni - AT
Students had completed a module of work on fashion and learnt the vocabulary connected with clothes, fabrics and accessories. Students were asked to write the script for a fashion parade outlining suitable outfits for the four seasons of the year in …
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Quanti animali - AT
Students had completed a unit of work on animals learning the vocabulary to name them and adjectives to describe their characteristics. Students had learned that many animals in Italian have similar names in English and discussed how cognates can help …
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Je parle.. AT
Students had shared information about their origins, discussed the diversity in their class and the languages that were spoken amongst the class members. In this task, students were asked to use learnt sentence structures, vocabulary and grammar to create …
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Letter to French penfriend - AT
Students had learnt how to structure likes/dislikes and personal information and how to structure a simple letter. In this task, students were asked to write a letter following the text type conventions to a new French penfriend.
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Ma vie a tellement changé - AT
Students had studied a unit of work on their personal world which included past and present activities, daily life and childhood memories. They learnt the language to enable them to reflect on past experiences and text structures appropriate to this …
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Daily routine video - AT
Students had completed a unit on daily routine during which they had learnt about daily and leisure time activities, transport to and from school and daily commitments, telling the time and specifying time of day, linking and sequencing words, and the …
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Ma Famille - AT
Students had completed a unit of work on family incorporating conjugation of regular -er verbs, nationalities, likes and dislikes and agreement of adjectives and relevant vocabulary. In this task, students were asked to create a PowerPoint presentation …
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Je vous présente ma famille - AT
Students learnt the vocabulary and sentence structures to use to describe themselves and their family. They learnt a number of adjectives and to agree the adjective with the noun in number and gender. Students learnt to conjugate the verb aimer and how …
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First letter/email to a penfriend - AT
Over the course of the semester students had learnt the vocabulary, expressions and grammar structures related to themselves, family, interests and home. In this task, students were asked to write a letter of introduction to a penfriend using the language …
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What was life like when you were young? - AT
Students had completed a unit of work comparing life in the past to that of the present. Students had learnt how to describe way of life, activities and leisure in the past using different tenses and how to express opinions. In this task, students were …
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What is a home? – AT
Students completed a mind map template to record their answers to the question: ‘What is a home?’ The activity took place in class with students creating visual representations to support their own texts which were scribed by the teacher.
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My photo album – AT
Students were asked to pose questions to their mothers regarding their lives at particular ages (baby, toddler, school student). The teacher subsequently transcribed students’ recollections of the answers to these questions. Students then created pictures, …
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