By the end of Level 8, students devise, interpret and perform drama. They manipulate the elements of drama, narrative and structure to control and communicate meaning. They apply different performance styles and conventions to convey status, relationships and intentions. They use performance skills...
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 8, students manipulate the elements of music and stylistic conventions to improvise, compose and perform music. They use evidence from listening and analysis to interpret, rehearse and perform songs and instrumental pieces in unison and in parts, demonstrating technical and...
Level description | The Arts | Music | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 8, students identify, analyse and evaluate how other artists use materials, techniques, technologies, processes and visual conventions to express ideas and convey meaning.
Students plan and make their art works in response to exploration of techniques, technologies and processes...
Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 8, students distinguish between different types of networks and their suitability in meeting defined purposes.
Students explain how text, image and sound data can be represented and secured in digital systems and presented using digital systems. They analyse and evaluate data...
Level description | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 8, students reflect on the influence of emotions on behaviour, learning and relationships. They use feedback to identify their achievements and prioritise areas for improvement. They initiate and undertake some tasks independently, within negotiated time frames and use criteria...
Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 7 and 8
Students listen for and identify different emphases in texts, using that understanding to elaborate upon discussions. They understand how the selection of language features can be used for particular purposes and effects. They explain the effectiveness of language choices they use to influence...
Level description | English | Level 8 | Speaking and Listening
Students understand how the selection of language features can be used for particular purposes and effects. They explain the effectiveness of language choices they use to influence the audience. Through combining ideas, images and language features from other texts students show how ideas can...
Level description | English | Level 8 | Writing
By the end of Level 8, students understand how the selection of text structures is influenced by the selection of language mode and how this varies for different purposes and audiences. They explain how language features, images and vocabulary are used to represent different ideas and issues in...
Level description | English | Level 8 | Reading and Viewing
By the end of Level 8, students engage in social interaction to exchange greetings and to share ideas and information related to their personal, social and school worlds. They use known phrases to exchange ideas and opinions, for example, Non mi piace la pallacanestro. They participate in classroom...
Level description | Languages | Italian | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 8 students explain factors that influence the design of solutions to meet present and future needs. They explain the contribution of design and technology innovations and enterprise to society. Students explain how the features of technologies impact on designed solutions and...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 8, students explain processes that influence the characteristics of places. They identify, analyse and explain interconnections and spatial characteristics and identity and explain their implications.
They compare strategies for a geographical challenge, taking into account...
Level description | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 8, students use written and spoken Arabic to initiate and sustain classroom interactions with others, to exchange views, for example, السباحة رياضة ممتعة؛ أعتقد أن السفر مفيد جدا , and express feelings such as أشعر بالفرح؛ بالسعادة عندما ألعب رياضت المفضلة؛ عندما أعزف الموسيقى ....
Level description | Languages | Arabic | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 8, students use written and spoken Korean to interact with teachers, peers and others, and to exchange ideas, experiences and interests. They pronounce polysyllabic words that involve syllable-final consonants (받침) such as 먹고, 어떻게 and 축하합니다 as 먹꼬, 어떠케 and 추카함니다, applying relevant...
Level description | Languages | Korean | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 8, students use written and spoken French to interact with teachers, peers and others and exchange experiences, opinions and views. They use descriptive and expressive language to talk and write about immediate environments, personal interests and feelings and technical language...
Level description | Languages | French | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 8, students use written and spoken Spanish for classroom interactions, to carry out transactions and to exchange views and experiences with peers and others in a range of contexts. They use rehearsed and spontaneous language to give and follow instructions and engage in discussions...
Level description | Languages | Spanish | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 8, students use spoken and written Vietnamese to initiate and sustain interactions with peers, teachers, family members and other known adults, and to engage in transactions and exchange ideas and experiences. They ask and respond to open-ended questions such as Bạn nghĩ...
Level description | Languages | Vietnamese | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8