Year 8 Italian
Overview
This course offers students the strategies and skills to maintain and extend their written and communication skills and expand their vocabulary through a variety of themes. These themes incorporate the diversity within the Italian language community and allow them to apply rules and patterns when given longer texts to read and write.
Topics
- The Individual: Self Image, Communicating with New People, Home and Family
- The Italian Speaking Communities: Italian Food, Eating out and Shopping, School Life
- The Changing World: How do Italians Communicate Now, The Use of Technology
Assessments
The student's achievements are assessed generally at the end of the topic. There is at least one assessment per skill each term. These assessments may vary in time but usually will take up to a lesson (50 minutes) to complete. Topics may last a term or longer and assessments are carried out according to the three Outcomes below.
Outcome One: Listening and Responding
Outcome Two: Spoken Interaction
Outcome Three: Viewing, Reading and Responding
Outcome Four: Writing
Reporting
A Excellent: The student demonstrates achievement that has greatly exceeded the expected standard. Their achievement is well beyond what is expected at this year level.
B Good: The student demonstrates achievement that exceeds the expected standard.
C Satisfactory: The student demonstrates achievement at the expected standard. The student is able to progress to the next level of learning.
D Limited: The student demonstrates achievement below the expected standard. The student demonstrates a quality of learning that is adequate for progression but will still need additional support or assistance to progress.
E Very Low: The student demonstrates achievement below the minimum acceptable for this year level.
Student expectations
Focus on developing skills in listening and speaking, reading, viewing, and responding and writing. Practise recognising systems and patterns in language learning and enhance linguistic memory skills. Students are expected to:
- Review work covered in class
- Learn new words, expressions, grammatical structures
- Complete reading and writing tasks commenced in class
- Research
- Write short texts (including electronic, multimedia presentations)
- Prepare role plays, practise answering questions (speaking)
- Listen to texts and respond
- Revise for tests
- Review mistakes and rewrite texts with corrections
