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Chinese / Year 7 and 8 / Understanding language and culture / Understanding systems of language
Curriculum content descriptions
develop knowledge of, and use sentence structures, characters and writing system features, to understand and create spoken, written and multimodal texts (AC9LC8EU02)
Elaborations
- applying knowledge of characters to learn to read and write new characters, and developing strategies for learning, for example, making connections between characters with a common component 你, 他, 们
- learning the origins and features of components encountered in characters, and analysing the formation of characters, including recognising the frequency and positioning of common components such as 人, 女, 日, 月 and their function or relationship to a compound character such as 亻in 他, 认, 从
- identifying contextual meanings of key characters in diverse contexts, for example, 今天 versus 天空; 星期日 versus 日本; 你好 versus 好玩
- identifying the placement of time and place phrases; the use of conjunctions 和 to add information; 还是 and 或者 to offer or indicate choices, and the role of measure words such as 个, 只
- recognising markers of time such as 第二天 in a sequence of events to monitor information flow and assist reading for overall meaning
- analysing the variety of verb types found in Chinese, for example, adjectival verbs 高, 大 and modal verbs 会, 可以 and the placement and use of adverbs such as 都 to indicate inclusion; 就 to indicate sequence
- identifying the relationships between the meaning of individual characters in words and exploring how these frequently used characters apply in a wider range of word contexts
- learning the number, nature and sequence of strokes; exploring the range of stroke types used in characters; learning to write with a focus on stroke direction and order, and on balance and proportion within the square
- exploring features and conventions of Chinese texts, including lack of word spacing or use of punctuation, comparing texts in traditional characters with texts in simplified characters such as 門, 门 and variability in text direction in Chinese and other scripts such as Arabic, Japanese and Hindi
- explaining the use of common suffixes 子, 里, 面 and key morphemes 电, 家, 物, 机
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Character structures, Sentences (Grammar), Kanji, Language conventions