Year 7 English · Australian Curriculum v9
Investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings
Content descriptor
Investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings.
- Code
- AC9E7LA08
- Year level
- Year 7
- Subject
- English
- Strand
- Language
- Sub-strand
- Language for expressing and developing ideas
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Learning intention
We are learning to investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings.
Cloze sentence
Investigate the role of vocabulary in building and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings.
Related Year 7 English descriptors
- AC9E7LA01Understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities
- AC9E7LA02Recognise language used to evaluate texts including visual and multimodal texts, and how evaluations of a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources
- AC9E7LA03Identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts
- AC9E7LA04Understand that the cohesion of texts relies on devices that signal structure and guide readers, such as overviews and initial and concluding paragraphs
- AC9E7LA05Understand how complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
- AC9E7LA06Understand how consistency of tense through verbs and verb groups achieves clarity in sentences
- AC9E7LA07Analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective
- AC9E7LA09Understand the use of punctuation including colons and brackets to support meaning
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Frequently asked questions
What is AC9E7LA08?
AC9E7LA08 is a content descriptor in the Year 7 English curriculum (Australian Curriculum v9, Language strand). It asks students to investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings.
What year level is AC9E7LA08?
AC9E7LA08 sits in the Year 7 English curriculum.
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