Years 7 and 8 Italian

The nature of the learners Students are beginning their study of Italian and typically have had little prior exposure to the language and associated cultures. Many will have learnt an additional language in primary school, some have proficiency in different …

Years 7 and 8 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | Italian | Languages | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACLITC099

posing questions (for example, Perché? Come si scrive? Può/puoi ripetere? Come si dice …? Come? Come si fa? Secondo me … Penso di sì/penso di no … Di chi è?) and explaining, for example, È mio/è di Luisa

Elaboration | ACLITC099 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | Italian | Languages | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard Italian Years 7 and 8

By the end of Year 8, students engage in social interaction to exchange greetings and to share ideas and information related to their personal, social and school worlds. They use known phrases to exchange ideas and opinions, for example, Non mi piace …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Years 7 and 8 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | Italian | Languages | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACLITC101

describing a person, place, object or event in their local environment using [article + subject + verb + adjective], including negative expressions, for example, è/non è simpatico/cattivo; di legno/di ceramica; è interessante/difficile

Elaboration | ACLITC101 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | Italian | Languages | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACLITU109

learning how to use:nouns to identify people and objects — singular and plural regular forms, gender, some exceptions; developing awareness of various categories of nouns with common endings such as -ista, -zione, -tore and -trice (for example, il/la …

Elaboration | ACLITU109 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | Italian | Languages | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACLITC106

participating in guided bilingual discussion of intercultural experiences and personal reactions, noticing challenges and adjustments, for example, Cosa noti di diverso? Cosa pensi? Penso che … Che differenza c’è tra fare un acquisto in Italia e in Australia? …

Elaboration (2) | ACLITC106 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | Italian | Languages | F-10 curriculum

ACLITU109

Understand and use key features and patterns of the Italian grammatical system, including definite and indefinite articles, gender and agreement, present tense of regular and common irregular verbs, and simple sentence construction

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACLITU109 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | Italian | Languages | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACLITU110

listening to or reading simple Italian texts and recognising the conventions of particular text types, for example, postcard, letter, email, card, blog and conversations (face to face and phone)

Elaboration (1) | ACLITU110 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | Italian | Languages | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACLITU110

analysing simple spoken, written and digital texts to identify different kinds of language use (such as personal, descriptive or informative) and ways to achieve textual cohesion, for example, use of fillers in spoken texts (insomma, beh, boh, allora …

Elaboration (2) | ACLITU110 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | Italian | Languages | F-10 curriculum