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Modern Greek: 7–10 Sequence

Modern Greek: 7–10 Sequence Level Description

Students become familiar with the sounds of Modern Greek, including pronunciation, rhythm, pitch and stress (Πώς πας Αντώνη; το α&...

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Modern Greek: 7–10 Sequence Content Descriptions

Communicating

Socialising
  1. Interact with peers and teacher to exchange information and opinions about self, family, friends and interests, and express feelings, likes and dislikes (VCELC001)
  2. Participate in collaborative activities, such as performances and presentations, that involve planning and making arrangements (VCELC002)
  3. Interact in class routines and exchanges by asking and responding to questions, following instructions and seeking help and permission (VCELC003)
Informing
  1. Locate and use key points of information, such as main ideas, specific details and general descriptions from a range of spoken, written, visual, digital or multimodal texts (VCELC004)
  2. Use spoken, written and multimodal forms of presentation to convey information on selected topics of interest (VCELC005)
Creating
  1. Access imaginative texts such as cartoons, songs, stories or digital texts, and respond by describing aspects such as characters, events and ideas (VCELC006)
  2. Create or represent and perform own imagined scenarios, characters and events, using stimulus materials and modelled language (VCELC007)
Translating
  1. Translate and interpret texts such as emails, signs and notices from Greek to English and English to Greek, using contextual cues and familiar textual features and recognising aspects that are similar and different in the two language versions (VCELC008)
  2. Create bilingual texts and resources to support their own learning, such as glossaries and personal dictionaries, digital resources and charts (VCELC009)
Reflecting
  1. Engage with speakers of Greek recognising that interaction involves the expression of cultural experience and values as well as language (VCELC010)
  2. Recognise their own and others’ ways of expressing identity, reflecting on the relationship between language, culture and identity (VCELC011)

Understanding

Systems of language
  1. Identify similarities and differences between the phonological and orthographic systems of English and Greek, including accentuation and intonation in oral language, and decode and use the Greek script (VCELU012)
  2. Recognise and use vocabulary and grammatical elements such as articles, pronouns and gender forms, and a limited range of common verbs in the present tense to create simple sentences and phrases (VCELU013)
  3. Recognise and understand characteristic features of common types of text, comparing them with equivalent texts in English (VCELU014)
Language variation and change
  1. Understand that Greek, like all languages, varies according to participants, roles and relationships, context and culture (VCELU015)
  2. Understand that Greek is a language that has influenced many global languages and continues to influence and change through interaction with other languages and cultures (VCELU016)
Role of language and culture
  1. Identify connections between language, culture and communication, recognising how communication styles and practices vary across cultures and how intercultural exchange involves the exchange of meaning as well as words (VCELU017)

Modern Greek: 7–10 Sequence Achievement Standard

By the end of Level 8, students use Greek to describe feelings (for example, Αγαπώ τη μουσική), express likes and dislikes (for example, Δε μου αρέσει η σοκολάτα) and exchange information about their personal worlds, including information about themselves (for example, λένε Γιώργο, Mένω στην Αυστραλία), their family (for example, O πατέρας μου είναι ψηλός), friends (for example, Ο Γιάννης είναι φίλος μου) and interests such as, Μου αρέσει η μπάλα. They interact with others in collaborative and classroom activities, using modelled language to carry out transactions (for example, Τι ώρα θα πάμε κυρία; Πόσο κάνουν οι καφέδες;), ask and respond to familiar questions such as, Το τρένο φεύγει στις δέκα; follow instructions, and seek help or permission (for example, Μπορώ να πάω σινεμά; Η τράπεζα

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