Arabic: 7–10 Sequence / Levels 7 and 8 / Understanding / Role of language and culture
Content description
Explore how language use reflects one’s thoughts, perceptions and culture, recognising that language and culture are interrelated systems for meaning-making
Elaborations
exploring the meaning of ‘culture’, and understanding that it involves visible elements, such as ways of eating and behaving, and invisible aspects, such as how people live, what they value and how they think of themselves and others
noticing similarities and differences between naming systems across languages represented in the classroom, and noticing that Arabic-speaking students may have names from other cultures and languages
understanding that particular Australian-English terms and expressions have no equivalent in Arabic, for example, ‘billabong’ and ‘the bush’, and that terms such as ‘the movies’, ‘footy’ and ‘backyard’ reflect aspects of Australian lifestyles
recognising and explaining to others the significance of some common Arabic cultural practices and events, such as offering visitors food and drink, for example,
تفضل صحة وهنا؛ بالهناء والشفاء
exploring the importance of music and traditional dance in some Arabic cultures as an expression of identity and emotions, for example,
الدبكة الفلسطنية والعراقية؛ والرقص الفلكلوري
exploring words or expressions commonly used in informal Australian interactions, and deciding how to interpret or explain them to young Arabic speakers, for example, ‘mate’, ‘fair dinkum’
