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Chinese / Year 7 and 8 / Understanding / Language variation and change
Version 8
Curriculum content descriptions
Explore assumptions and challenges for language use in new environments, identifying and comparing ways in which sensitive topics are introduced and discussed across languages, for example, comparing the Chinese custom of asking direct questions about age, income and other personal matters with the contexts in which these questions are asked in English (ACLCHU241)
Elaborations
- recognising clichés, examining cases of ‘breaking’ a cliché and the impact it might have, such as 脑筋建转弯 questions
- identifying how language use can be varied for different participants in different contexts, for example, the use of slang and abbreviations between teenagers
- using classical terms and expressions including 成语、歇后语、俗语 appropriate to context, such as using 亭亭玉立 to describe young girls
- discussing ‘taboo’ terms across languages, and using terms suitable for the context, such as different words for 死 (‘to die’), for example, 驾崩 (皇帝)、 仙逝 （长辈 ) 、去世（一般人) 、香消玉殒 (女性)
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Idioms, Language usage, Chinese languages