By the end of Level 10, students use Auslan to share information, experiences, interests, thoughts and feelings in relation to their personal and immediate worlds. They describe the appearance of people, objects and places using SASS depicting signs and spatial location, for example, HAVE DS:...
Level description | Languages | Auslan | First Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10
By the end of Level 2, students interact with teachers and each other to talk about themselves, their families, friends and immediate environment. They follow instructions to complete action-based activities such as signing games or transactional activities, using repeated constructions, gestures...
Level description | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2
By the end of Level 10, students use Auslan to build relationships and to initiate, sustain and extend interactions with teachers, peers and contacts in the wider community. They engage in debate and discuss aspirations and social issues, explaining and justifying positions and elaborating opinions...
Level description | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10
By the end of Level 6, students discuss aspects of their daily lives, social activities and school experience and respond to each other’s comments. They describe relationships and characteristics of people and objects and express feelings and preferences, for example, POSS1 FRIEND CHANGE...
Level description | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6
By the end of Level 4, students participate in classroom routines and structured interactions with teachers and peers. They communicate about daily routines, interests and pastimes; recount personal experiences and classroom events; and describe people, experiences or activities using simple depicting...
Level description | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 3 and 4
By the end of Level 8, students use Auslan to interact and to exchange information, experiences, interests and opinions with teachers, peers and others. They initiate and maintain conversations and use strategies such as fingerspelling to replace unknown signs to support continued interaction, such as
Level description | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 10, students interact with peers, teachers and others using Auslan to communicate about personal interests and broader issues relating to the Deaf community. They participate in class discussions, explaining and clarifying positions, asking follow-up questions, using non-manual...
Level description | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10
By the end of Level 8, students use Auslan to share information, experiences, interests, thoughts and feelings about their personal and immediate worlds. They use modelled constructions, ask for repetition or clarification, such as please slow sign, and use strategies such as fingerspelling to...
Level description | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Levels 4, students use spoken and written Chinese to initiate interactions. They participate in short exchanges, for example, 你晚饭吃什么?,我学汉语和英语,站起来, 大家听老师说. They organise and convey factual information and share experiences in formal and informal situations, making appropriate choices...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Background Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 3 and 4
By the end of Level 10, students sustain extended exchanges with others (for example, 那个,你知道的,就是,还有) and use Chinese to participate in shared activities, for example, 我为什么学汉语,澳大利亚的多元文化,年轻人的兴趣,网络的好与坏, 你难道不觉得…如果…就…吗?你的意思是说…,如果是这样的话… They apply knowledge of rhythm...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Background Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10
By the end of Level 8, students use spoken and written Chinese to maintain exchanges, to analyse and evaluate information, and to share opinions (for example, 电视节目,纪录片,教育片,微电影, 报纸,杂志, 网站,博客, 少年百科) and experiences, for example, 我们为什么要保护熊猫?,中国和澳大利亚的一些差异, 我最喜欢的假期. They select and discern tone patterns...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Background Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 6, students use spoken and written Chinese to maintain interactions with familiar and unfamiliar people across a growing range of situations (for example, 你星期几去汉语学校?,你说…对吗?); to convey information, opinions and experiences (for example, 我喜欢踢澳式足球,你呢?); and to access a...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Background Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6
By the end of Year 10, students use spoken and written Chinese to initiate and sustain extended interactions with others in their social world and in the Chinese-speaking community, for example, 我的学校生活,澳大利亚的运动,我最喜欢的春节活动. They ask questions (for example, 你真的认为…吗?请想一想…) and adapt language...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Background Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10
By the end of Year 8, students use spoken and written Chinese to sustain interactions in their personal and social worlds (for example, 你叫什么名字?你多大了?你住在哪个城市?,不对,我是说… and 老师,我可以用电脑吗?), making appropriate language choices for different roles, relationships and situations, for example, 你的那个,那个 as...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Background Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 8, students sustain oral and written interactions with known audiences, making appropriate adjustments to language use for different audiences, contexts and purposes. They access and analyse a range of authentic spoken, written and multimodal sources to support and present...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | First Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 10, students sustain extended interactions with diverse individuals and groups, selecting spoken and written language for precision and for effect on participants. Students collate and evaluate a range of spoken, written and multimodal sources to convey different perspectives...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | First Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10
By the end of Level 2, students use spoken and written Chinese to communicate with teachers and peers. They participate in structured and routine interactions, such as using 谢谢, 再见, 请, using learnt sounds, formulaic phrases, and verbal and non-verbal responses. They respond to and receive information...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2
By the end of Level 10, students use spoken and written Chinese to sustain extended interactions with familiar and unfamiliar participants in a range of contexts (for example, interacting with Chinese-speaking students online; using Chinese to ask about items in a local Chinese grocery). Students...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10
By the end of Level 6, students use spoken and written Chinese to initiate and maintain interactions. They describe and give information about themselves and their preferences, their environment, experiences and interests, for example, 我很喜欢唱歌。我的学校很漂亮。我觉得澳大利亚是很好的国家. They use simple questions (for example,
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6
By the end of Level 4, students use spoken and written Chinese in simple personal interactions with familiar participants about self, family, people, places, routine, school life, and their own interests and preferences, for example, 你叫什么名字? 你上几年级? 你有狗吗? 你喜欢什么运动? They use appropriate pronunciation...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 3 and 4