German: F–10 Sequence / Levels 7 and 8 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Understand the structures and conventions associated with different types of personal, informative and persuasive texts such as emails, news items and advertisements
Elaborations
applying knowledge of text types and their purposes to identify the gist and predict the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary in texts
analysing different samples of a particular text type such as advertisements to determine the targeted audience(s), and describing the techniques used
identifying the structure and conventions of a range of texts, such as a diary entry, a weather report and a news report
describing relationships between language, structure and textual purpose, for example, in a personal text using informal register, such as a thank-you email to a friend (Liebe Grüße; du; Dein(e) X)
