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Chinese / Year 7 and 8 / Understanding / Systems of language
Version 8
Curriculum content descriptions
Identify structure and organisation of different texts, including expositions, procedural texts and recounts, and use these in their own speech and writing (ACLCHU173)
Elaborations
- analysing and explaining the organisation and development of ideas or an argument in a range of genres, including textual features such as paragraphing
- comparing the ways in which similar ideas and concepts are presented in different genres, discussing the impact of genre choice on text structure and language use (for example, in imaginative and evaluative texts), and determining how language choices achieve the desired effect
- exploring the traditional structure of persuasive texts in Chinese, such as 总起-分述-总结, and discussing its effectiveness
- reading samples of formal texts, such as news articles, official letters and informative reports, and identifying how the language use compares to their own everyday speech
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Text structure, Expositions (Factual texts), Procedures, Chinese languages, Procedural recounts