German: 7–10 Sequence / Levels 7 and 8 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Recognise and use structures and other textual features of common spoken, written and multimodal texts such as invitations, emails, surveys, advertisements and music video clips
Elaborations
identifying and analysing the purpose, intended audience and key features of familiar texts in German, such as signs, instructions, postcards, advertisements, songs and conversations, and comparing these with texts in own language and culture
examining how texts are constructed, including textual features (greetings in correspondence), grammatical structures such as parts of speech (adjectives and prepositions), and visual cues (images in brochures)
transforming a simple text such as a short poem into another text type, such as a conversation or a cartoon, and applying the key features of the second text type
understanding how to create textual cohesion by using elements such as coordinating conjunctions (und, aber, oder) to link ideas
