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Modern Greek / Year 7 and 8 / Understanding / Role of language and culture
Version 8
Curriculum content descriptions
Understand how language use reflects cultural ideas, assumptions and perspectives, and reflect on how what is considered acceptable in communication varies across cultures
[Key concepts: attitudes, norms, sameness and difference; Key processes: analysing, interpreting, reflecting]
(ACLMGU170)
Elaborations
- discussing ways of communicating across cultures, the significance of cultural concepts and how social conventions are reflected in language use, for example, Γεια μας!, Nα΄σαι καλά, Σιδερένιος, Να ζήσετε, Πάντα άξιος, considering assumptions and perspectives
- analysing the meaning and use of proverbs, idioms and sayings, for example, Δείξε μου τον φίλο σου να σου πω ποιος είσαι, discussing how they reflect culture and traditions
- reflect on ways cultural ideas embedded in language influence places occupied by Greek diaspora and the sustainability of those places
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms
Greek language