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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My crazy animal - AT
Students had learnt French colours and animals and basic descriptive language and grammar to form simple descriptive sentences. In this task, students were read the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Ours brun, Dis-moi French edition) by …
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Introduction of self and friend - AT
Students had learnt the sentence structures, grammar and vocabulary for self-introductions and how to introduce friends. In this task, students were asked to write a self-introduction and to introduce a friend using the pre-learnt expressions and vocabulary. …
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Chouette, c’est la rentrée - AT
Students had learnt about the cultural concept of la rentrée and discussed key language and grammatical structures. In this task, students were given a poem as a written stimulus text and were asked to answer questions in English about the content and …
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La journée à la maison et à l’école - AT
Students had completed a unit of work on daily life and routine. Students had learnt about a typical day in the life of a French student and learnt relevant vocabulary, expressions and grammar to be able to discuss and describe their own daily routine …
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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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Ma chambre - AT
Students had learnt vocabulary related to the home and grammatical structures such as prepositions to describe location. In this task, students described their bedroom using prepositions of place to indicate where different furniture was located and features …
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The local lagoon – AT
Students undertook a guided excursion to a freshwater wetland in a local national park. After the excursion students completed a structured worksheet in class.
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Museum in a box – AT
Students visited a local museum to investigate aspects of life in the past. Following the visit, students chose objects or technologies for teacher-guided research and inquiry, and students sequenced developments along a simple timeline and wrote scaffolded …
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Wie ist das Wetter? – AT
Students learnt about the terms used for weather in German and how to describe the weather using short, modelled sentences. In this task, students were asked to create a poster with pictures and sentences to describe the weather. They were asked to create …
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Meine Familie- AT
Students learnt vocabulary related to describing family and pets, including names, ages, birthdays and personal characteristics. They were also introduced to grammar structures such as present tense of verbs, possessive articles (mein/dein) and the subject-direct …
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Explorer research – AT
Students selected a seventeenth century Dutch explorer from a list provided by the teacher. They were asked to pose a series of questions about the explorer using the stems ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’, ‘when’, ‘how’ and ‘why’. With teacher guidance and support …
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Eureka Stockade: rights and responsibilities – AT
Students studied the people and events of 1854 at Ballarat, Victoria. They explored the living and working conditions on the goldfields and the specific actions associated with the Eureka Stockade. At the end of the unit they entered their ideas about …
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A refugee’s suitcase – AT
Students watched the episode ‘Cuc Lam’s Suitcase’ from the National Treasures series produced by the National Film and Sound Archive. They were asked to imagine they were a refugee from the Vietnam War and describe the contents of the suitcase they would …
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Federation: for and against – AT
Students were provided with a selection of primary and secondary sources detailing the key figures and events that led to Australia’s federation in 1901. The task involved extracting arguments for and against federation and then recording this information …
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Email to a member of parliament – AT
Students explored levels of mobile phone use and ownership in Australia as part of a unit on resources, consumers and businesses. They then wrote an email that might be sent to their local federal member of parliament requesting new legislation in relation …
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Mi Monstruo – AT
Students learnt parts of the body through songs, action play and reading and acting out a story about monsters. The tasks and descriptions were modelled for students before the task below. In this task, students were asked to complete a variety of …
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Living things – AT
Students learnt about farm, wild and domestic animals within the unit ‘living things’. After building on vocabulary related to colours, students were introduced to descriptive sentences for noun and adjective agreement. Students participated in discussions …
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My Spanish learning journey – AT
Students participated in whole-class and peer discussions about their Spanish learning journey. Concepts such as identity, intercultural awareness, metalanguage, values, global citizenship and culture were unpacked and discussed, with students recording …
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Listening comprehension – AT
Students learnt how to talk about themselves and then applied the knowledge to listen to information about other people. Students practiced listening to the teacher read introductions about various people before completing a listening comprehension task. …
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