Years 7 - 8 Level
Understanding Language and Culture
Content Elaborations - (U2) AC9L1AU8EU02
• developing awareness of the range of signing space in normal signed interactions, from just above head to waist and extending to sides, noting exceptions, such as DOG location on thigh
• using a digital resource to assist in understanding that handshape and movement represent different things in each type of DS, for example, entity DSs, handling DSs and SASS DSs
• identifying concepts that can be represented in a DS by a particular handshape, for example, a distant person, pole or tree can be represented by a point handshape, a car by a flat handshape, and a cylinder such as a water bottle can be traced by a cup handshape
• understanding that, typically, signers use DSs to show spatial relationships/prepositions, not separate signs such as ON or UNDER when interacting
• recognising that a noun group can include elements such as adjectives or numbers and that proper nouns can be shown through fingerspelling or sign names if appropriate
• using different nouns in clauses, including those that are shown with a pointing sign, such as GIRL READ versus SHE READ, or VISIT FRIEND versus VISIT PRO3
• using adjectives to describe nouns in different ways such as how they look (BIG or RED), feel (SOFT or HOT), smell (SMELLY) or sound (LOUD)
• using different pointing signs, such as pronouns, determiners, locatives in texts
• identifying indicating verbs used between referents, for example,
I helped her.
She asked me and I was shocked!
• developing examples of signs that tell when, where or how a verb happens, such as
I am going on holiday in 2 weeks.
I would like lunch now please.
We have run a long way.
Come here please.
You finished quickly.
• identifying verb signs SIT, EAT, FEEL, WONDER, HAVE and understanding that they are central to a clause, noticing there is no verb 'to be' in Auslan
• exploring different types of verbs in a text, for example, doing (WALK, WRITE), saying (TELL, CALL (YELL), ANNOUNCE), sensing (SEE, THINK) or possessing
• noticing that adverbial signs modify the meaning of verbs, such as DRIVE CAREFUL, and that these can also be communicated effectively through NMFs, for example, DRIVE NMF:CAREFULLY
• understanding that single-digit numbers can be merged into other signs (numeral incorporation), such as those for ages, for example, AGE-YEARS(FIVE), or adverbs of time, for example, WEEK-AGO(THREE)
• recognising that there is flexibility in sign order, for example, parts of a sentence can be signed simultaneously, but generally a time-topic-comment structure is followed
• distinguishing between yes/no questions and wh- questions and statements, and their corresponding NMFs