Year 9 Italian
Overview
This course offers students the opportunity to extend their communication skills in the context of health, fashion and travel. Students will explore and enhance their language through the application of skills and strategies.
Topics
- The Individual: My Surroundings, What I Like to Do
- The Italian Speaking Communities: Eating out and Places to visit in Italy
- The Changing World: Young People, Shopping
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 Outcomes below:
Outcome One: Listening and Responding
Outcome Two: Spoken Interaction
Outcome Three: Viewing, Reading and Responding
Outcome Four: Writing
All Year 9 students complete the Assessment of Language Competence in Italian.
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 a variety of texts (including electronic, multimedia presentations)
- Listen to texts and respond
- Prepare role plays and practise conversation
- Revise for tests
- Review mistakes and rewrite texts with corrections
