Chinese: Second Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 7 and 8 / Communicating / Creating
Content description
Engage with imaginative texts, observing how characters, emotions and attitudes are portrayed, express opinions about these aspects of an imagined experience and apply this knowledge in their own performances and texts
Elaborations
identifying how features of performance, including the use of posture, movement, voice, images and sound, are used to convey different emotions and attitudes, for example, 她跑得很快; 音乐听起来很轻快; 森林里很暗; 我很害怕
writing a short dialogue about an emotion and performing it in groups
expressing and justifying their music preferences, for example 我喜欢这首歌，因为歌词很美
producing short performances, for example, a skit about celebrating Spring Festival, a simple lyric for a song about school life, or a rap about being a student of Chinese
noticing how emotion is expressed in song, film or poems and discussing its impact on listeners and viewers
reflecting on the language, beliefs and values of characters in traditional and modern literature and Chinese popular culture, and comparing different students’ responses to the same story, event, character or place, for example, viewing excerpts from contemporary films and discussing personal responses to and the sociocultural context of the film
