Year 8 SyllabusTest
Year 8 Syllabus
Year Level Description
Year 8 Hindi: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Hindi language developed in Year 7 and focuses on extending students’ oral and written communication skills and their understanding of the Hindi language and Indian culture. Students may need encouragement to take risks in learning a language at this stage of social development and to consider how the experience impacts on the norms associated with their first language and culture.
In Year 8, students communicate in Hindi, initiating and participating in interactions with peers and known adults to discuss and share ideas, opinions and experiences of special holidays and travel. They engage in individual and collaborative tasks that involve planning experiences and activities by considering options, negotiating arrangements, solving problems and participating in transactions. Students access, summarise and share key ideas and information from a range of texts related to their personal and social worlds. They organise and present information and ideas to raise awareness of and inform others about texts, using language and modes of presentation to compare perspectives and experiences. Students respond to imaginative texts, analysing the ideas, themes, values and techniques used to entertain audiences, and make connections with personal experiences. They create and present a range of simple imaginative texts, selecting appropriate language, rhythms and images to enrich the visual or listening experience.
Students better understand the systems of the Hindi language when encountered in simple spoken and written texts. They use the features of the Hindi sound and writing systems, recognising the elements of spoken and written words, phrases and non-verbal forms of expression, and notice how they combine to make or to change meaning. They generate language for purposeful interaction in spoken and written texts by continuing to extend their knowledge of context-related vocabulary and elements of grammar, including expanding their vocabulary by using prefixes and suffixes to change the meaning of a base word, extending their use of adjectives, using adverbs before verbs and understanding prepositions of time. Students continue to build a metalanguage to describe grammatical concepts and to organise learning.
Students widen their social networks, experiences and communication repertoires in Hindi. They are encouraged to investigate the nature and extent of Hindi language use in both Australian and global contexts, reflect on different aspects of the cultural dimension of learning and using Hindi, and consider how this might be interpreted and responded to by members of the community.
In Year 8, students are supported to develop increasing autonomy as language learners and users, to self-monitor and peer-monitor, and to adjust language in response to their experiences in different contexts. Students use the Hindi language in more extended and elaborated ways for classroom interactions and routines, task participation and structured discussion.
Communicating
Socialising
Initiate and participate in interactions with peers and known adults orally and in writing to discuss and share ideas, opinions and experiences of special holidays and travel; for example, आपकी भारत यात्रा कैसी रही?; तुम गर्मी की छुट्टी में कहाँ गई थी?; मैं अपने परिवार के साथ पहले वाराणसी गई थी, और उसके बाद हम आगरा होते हुए वापस प्रयागराज आए।; तुम दिवाली पर क्या करते हो?; हम दीयों से घर सजाते हैं और फिर पटाखे जलाते हैं।; इस साल/ वर्ष हमने मित्रों के साथ दिवाली मनाई और खूब मिठाई खाई।
Engage in individual and collaborative tasks that involve planning experiences and activities, considering options, negotiating arrangements, solving problems and participating in transactions that include purchasing goods and services, such as preparing for a birthday party, दिवाली; दशहरा; स्वतंत्रता दिवस; गणतंत्र दिवस की परेड, a real or virtual event, trip or excursion, a sporting event or community festival
Informing
Access, summarise and share key ideas and information from a range of texts related to aspects of their personal and social worlds and present them in different formats for intended audiences
Organise and present information and ideas to raise awareness of and inform others about texts related to aspects of their personal and social worlds, using language and modes of presentation to compare perspectives and experiences
Creating
Respond to imaginative texts, such as raps, poems, cartoons and films, analysing ideas, themes, values and techniques used to engage and entertain audiences, and make connections with personal experiences and other imaginative texts in own language and culture
Create and present a range of simple texts that involve imagined contexts and characters, selecting appropriate language, rhythms and images to enrich the visual or listening experience
Translating
Translate and/or interpret texts including those that use language with colloquial or cultural associations, and consider why there might be differences in interpretation and how language reflects elements of culture
Reflecting
Participate in intercultural interactions with members of the Hindi-speaking community to discuss cultural practices, demonstrating awareness of the importance of shared understanding and reflecting on adjustments made as a result of reactions and responses
Consider how their own biography influences their identity and communication and shapes their own intercultural experiences
Understanding
Systems of language
Continue to build on knowledge of the features of the Hindi sound system, with its vowels and consonants, and build phonic awareness while focusing on difficult sounds and consonants
Continue to distinguish the use of bindu and chandrabindu to pronounce Hindi letters with a nasal quality
Recognise and correctly pronounce the underdotted characters as required; for example, खज़ाना, फ़ाइनल
Distinguish loan words from other languages; for example, Persian (ज़मीन, सफ़ेद, शायद) and English (संतरी, अफ़सर, साइकिल)
Understand and apply the use of chandrabindu to pronounce loan words like the original English words; for example, डाक्टर/ डॉक्टर, डालर/ डॉलर
Consolidate the use of punctuation to make meaning in understanding and creating Hindi texts
Generate language for a range of purposes in spoken and written texts by using context-related vocabulary and applying elements of the Hindi grammatical system, including:
- extending the use of adjectives to describe nouns and in comparative structures; for example, राम थोड़ा लम्बा है।; पर्थ सिड्नी से अधिक गर्म है।
- using adverbs before verbs; for example, जल्दी रोटी बनाओ।; ज़ोर से खींचो।; प्यार से बोलो।
- understanding prepositions of time; for example, रात को; दोपहर में, साढ़े चार बजे
- identifying the use of prefixes and suffixes to change the meaning and form of a base word; for example, ज्ञान, ज्ञानी, अज्ञानी, ज्ञानपीठ, विज्ञान
- expanding vocabulary by learning antonyms (विलोम); for example, मान, अपमान; स्वर्ग, नर्क
- understanding the use of active and passive voice according to the context; for example, मैंने गाय को चारा खिलाया है; गाय को चारा खिलाया गया है।
- creating compound and complex sentences by using conjunctions; for example, मैं अभी लिखूँगा ताकि समय पूरा होने से पहले लेख समाप्त कर लूँ।
- recognising and using idiomatic expressions; for example, कोल्हू का बैल; कुत्ते की पूंछ
- using numbers in fraction, multiple and collective form, such as आधा, चौथाई, एक तिहाई, सैंकड़ों, हज़ारों, तीन गुणा
Continue to build a metalanguage to describe grammatical concepts and to organise learning resources
Apply the structures and conventions associated with a range of text types and identify key features and functions of the different genres
Language variation and change
Examine how elements of communication, such as gestures, facial expressions and choice of language, vary according to context and situation
Investigate the nature and extent of Hindi language use in both Australian and global contexts
Role of language and culture
Reflect on different aspects of the cultural dimension of learning and using Hindi and consider how this might be interpreted and responded to by members of the community
Achievement standard
At standard, students use mostly familiar language when participating in spoken and written interactions to exchange information on special holidays and travel and to collaborate on tasks, activities and transactions. They access, summarise and share key ideas and information from texts and present them in different formats for their intended audiences. Students analyse key ideas, themes, values and techniques in imaginative texts and make some connections with other imaginative texts in their own language and culture. They also create and present simple texts with imagined contexts and characters, selecting mostly appropriate language, rhythms and images to enrich the experience. Students translate and/or interpret texts, with some accuracy and consider why there might be differences in interpretation. They consider how their biography influences their identity and communication and shapes their intercultural experiences.
Students better understand the Hindi sound and writing systems, using familiar vocabulary related to special holidays and travel, and applying elements of grammar in spoken and written texts, with a satisfactory level of accuracy.. They apply most of the structures and conventions of a range of text types and identify most key features and functions of the different genres. Students discuss the nature and extent of Hindi language use in both Australian and global contexts and explain the different cultural aspects of learning and using Hindi, considering how this might be interpreted and responded to by members of the community.
Year Level Description
Year 8 Hindi: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Hindi language developed in Year 7 and focuses on extending students’ oral and written communication skills and their understanding of the Hindi language and Indian culture. Students may need encouragement to take risks in learning a language at this stage of social development and to consider how the experience impacts on the norms associated with their first language and culture.
In Year 8, students communicate in Hindi, initiating and participating in interactions with peers and known adults to discuss and share ideas, opinions and experiences of special holidays and travel. They engage in individual and collaborative tasks that involve planning experiences and activities by considering options, negotiating arrangements, solving problems and participating in transactions. Students access, summarise and share key ideas and information from a range of texts related to their personal and social worlds. They organise and present information and ideas to raise awareness of and inform others about texts, using language and modes of presentation to compare perspectives and experiences. Students respond to imaginative texts, analysing the ideas, themes, values and techniques used to entertain audiences, and make connections with personal experiences. They create and present a range of simple imaginative texts, selecting appropriate language, rhythms and images to enrich the visual or listening experience.
Students better understand the systems of the Hindi language when encountered in simple spoken and written texts. They use the features of the Hindi sound and writing systems, recognising the elements of spoken and written words, phrases and non-verbal forms of expression, and notice how they combine to make or to change meaning. They generate language for purposeful interaction in spoken and written texts by continuing to extend their knowledge of context-related vocabulary and elements of grammar, including expanding their vocabulary by using prefixes and suffixes to change the meaning of a base word, extending their use of adjectives, using adverbs before verbs and understanding prepositions of time. Students continue to build a metalanguage to describe grammatical concepts and to organise learning.
Students widen their social networks, experiences and communication repertoires in Hindi. They are encouraged to investigate the nature and extent of Hindi language use in both Australian and global contexts, reflect on different aspects of the cultural dimension of learning and using Hindi, and consider how this might be interpreted and responded to by members of the community.
In Year 8, students are supported to develop increasing autonomy as language learners and users, to self-monitor and peer-monitor, and to adjust language in response to their experiences in different contexts. Students use the Hindi language in more extended and elaborated ways for classroom interactions and routines, task participation and structured discussion.