Around the town – AT
Students learnt about places around the town starting with cognates (escuela, parque, supermercado, zoo, piscina, cine, teatro, biblioteca). Students were given familiar vocabulary with a graphic organiser to write sentences like ‘Yo voy a …’. Opportunities …
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My house – AT
Students learnt about housing in some Arabic-speaking countries and compared these with their own homes. They learnt vocabulary and structures to support descriptions and comparisons. In this task students answered questions of comprehension on a text …
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Pairs: Seasons - AT
Students made and responded to dance by exploring seasons as a stimulus in a short unit of work. They also individually choreographed a dance to represent their chosen season. They were guided through the process of developing movements to represent a …
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Design project: Seed to sandwich - AT
Students explored requirements for plant growth and the production and processing steps to get from a wheat seed to a food product (loaf of bread). They created a visual representation (road map) to plot the steps from a wheat seed to a loaf of bread. …
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La mia infanzia - AT
Students had been learning to discuss their childhood memories using the correct past tenses in Italian. Students had learnt the present perfect and imperfect tenses in Italian and the focus of this task was to demonstrate appropriate use of these tenses …
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Talking about my food preferences – AT
In a unit of work about Korean food and culture, students learnt new vocabulary, phrases and relevant grammar structures to talk about their favourite foods and personal perspectives on the relationship between food and culture. This speaking task had …
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Gesundheit role play – AT
Students learnt how to describe ailments and health conditions. This provided a context for introducing the perfect tense with the auxiliary haben, and regular verbs. Students had been introduced to both coordinating and subordinating conjunctions in …
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Personal Introduction – Ini Saya - AT
Students were asked to present an oral self-introduction during class using expressions and phrases on introducing oneself learned throughout the semester. This task was completed without use of notes. It was a summative task at the end of the unit Ini …
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Demonstration: Overarm throw - AT
Prior to the assessment task, students participated in a ball skills unit involving throwing and catching activities, group activities and minor games involving these skills, and viewed video clips of effective overarm throws. Students were asked to …
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Folk music: North American - AT
Students studied American folk music and the origins of blues in a 10-week unit that differentiated for a range of abilities in class. In particular, they studied traditional North American blues and gospel music, focusing on This Train is Bound for Glory …
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Τι κάνω το απόγευμα – AT
Students learnt personal and school routines for various parts of the day. In this task students wrote sentences and paragraphs in relation to the sequence of their afternoon routine, using a range of language features and functions and appropriate punctuation …
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Mein Wochenende – AT
Students learnt how to talk about past events and activities, and to sequence these logically. They also learnt how to pose questions and write for a particular audience and context. In this task, students were asked to write an informal email to a …
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My alien friend – AT
Students learnt about people’s characteristics – personal information, likes/dislikes, physical appearances, hobbies and interests. In this task, students were asked to imagine that they meet a friendly alien. Students were to create, introduce and describe …
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Reply to letter – AT
Students learnt how to read and write letters in Vietnamese using relevant grammar, vocabulary, sequencing, and conventions. In this task, students were asked to read a letter from an imaginary character ‘Trang’ to his grandmother. Students were to imagine …
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الاحتفالات الوطنية – AT
Students discussed the ways in which Arabic speaking countries celebrate their national days. Students learned how to talk about and describe activities and the atmosphere of particular events in which people celebrate with a sense of pride and personal …
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Digital project: The beach - AT
Students collected data about what they found on the beach and presented the data as an information product.
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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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Save the bushland – AT
Students undertook a teacher-led excursion to a local bushland area that had been marked for potential redevelopment. Students examined and discussed arguments for and against the redevelopment. Students then wrote letters to the editor of the local newspaper …
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Australia: your life so far – AT
Students produced a ‘profile’ of Australia on the eve of federation in 1901. In class during one 50-minute lesson, they completed sections of a teacher-created proforma to draw together information and ideas from their study of Australia’s history and …
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Paragraph: Ancient Egypt - AT
Students examined a series of images of the wall decorations of two different ancient Egyptian tombs. They used the information in the images to make inferences and draw conclusions about life in this ancient society. Students expressed their ideas in …
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