Nhà ở Úc và Việt Nam – AT
Students learnt about the concept of ‘place and space’ and researched housing in both Australia and Vietnam. Students learnt language structures and vocabulary to enable them to compare and contrast objects, describe differences in culture and express …
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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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Letter to pen friend – AT
Students learnt how to write about themselves and about their daily routine in Spanish, and answer questions relating to their personal world. Students completed various activities including games, oral dialogues, and reading and listening tasks related …
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SpK4
delivers spoken texts for a range of purposes across learning areas (explains how the mathematics problem was solved) uses complex sentence constructions including relative clauses (the boy who drew the picture got a prize) (see Grammar) adjusts register …
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UnT10
Comprehension reads and views moderately complex or some sophisticated texts (see Text complexity) interprets abstract or more remote content analyses visual text to identify point of view recognises layers of meaning synthesises information from a variety …
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Job application and interview – AT
Students learnt about jobs and careers. They read a range of texts in relation to jobs, including informative texts and advertisements. They learnt how to write a formal job application, responding to advertised criteria and using vocabulary, register …
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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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UnT6
Comprehension reads and views simple texts and some predictable texts (see Text complexity) locates specific information in a predictable print text or a given set of digital sources describes the purpose of informative, imaginative and persuasive texts draws …
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CrT6
Crafting ideas writes for a range of purposes (to recount a personal experience, to observe and describe, to provide a reason why, to express thoughts and feelings about a topic) writes four or more sequenced and clearly connected ideas includes a simple …
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Saving our planet – AT
In a unit on world environmental issues, students learnt relevant vocabulary, grammar and expressions to: understand and discuss causes of environmental problems and some solutions extend their understanding of lexis connected to climate change and environmental …
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CrT8
Generic indicators tense mostly correct throughout text (see Grammar) consistently writes compound sentences correctly and uses a greater range of complex sentences (see Grammar) uses a variety of sentence structures and sentence beginnings spells some …
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Restaurant role play and review – AT
Students learnt the vocabulary and sentence patterns related to names of food and drink, eating at a restaurant, reading a menu, ordering food and critiquing food. Students completed various formative tasks to learn and understand a range of vocabulary …
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Natural and man-made impact on ecosystems – ABOVE
In a teaching and learning unit on ecology, students learnt about energy and matter transfer in an ecosystem using food chains and food webs, different relationships between organisms in an ecosystem, sustainability, and natural and man-made impacts on …
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Weather– AT
Leading up to the task, students brainstormed a variety of terms used to describe weather conditions in English, then those used in Vietnamese. They discussed the meaning of the word ‘translating’ and the fact that some words cannot be directly translated. In …
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Tết – AT
Students learnt about festivals and celebrations in Vietnam. Students were introduced to the customs, traditions and rituals of these celebrations. In this task, students were asked to describe Vietnamese New Year objects and their significance for the …
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Reflection on learning Vietnamese – AT
In this task, students were asked a series of questions relating to their experience of learning Vietnamese. Students were unfamiliar with the questions and responses were spontaneous and unrehearsed.
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Choreography: Telling stories - ABOVE
Students investigated how elements of dance can be used to tell a story. The task consisted of two sections that were joined together. The first part engaged the students in the development of understanding of repetition and contrast to communicate their …
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Choreography: Telling stories - AT
Students investigated how elements of dance can be used to tell a story. The task consisted of two sections that were joined together. The first part engaged the students in the development of understanding of repetition and contrast to communicate their …
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Choreography: Telling stories - Below
Students investigated how elements of dance can be used to tell a story. The task consisted of two sections that were joined together. The first part engaged the students in the development of understanding of repetition and contrast to communicate their …
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Political cartoons - ABOVE
This task had two parts. First, students designed a political cartoon associated with the Franklin River dispute which incorporated the iconic ‘no dams’ symbol. Second, students critically analysed their cartoons and presented a rationale explaining why …
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