AC9L1AUF01 – Foundation Languages: null

This Content Descriptor from Foundation Languages provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

• 1

  greeting others using appropriate forms of address, for example,

  HELLO, GOOD MORNING, GOOD AFTERNOON,

  and use of sign names if appropriate

• 2

  participating in routine exchanges such as expressing thanks, asking to go to the bathroom or get a drink, and describing the day’s weather, for example, raising hand or waving when attending to roll call, saying

  PLEASE, THANK-YOU, GOOD, TODAY WEATHER SUN

• 3 responding to and using visual cues such as pointing, eye contact and body language
• 4

  following classroom instructions that include simple DSS for completing activities, such as

  DS:SIT-CIRCLE

  Sit in a circle.

  DS:LINE-UP

  Line up.

  DS:LOOK-AT PRO1

  Look at me.

• 5 describing family, friends and peers using visual cues and prompts
• 6

  participating in games that involve the use of repeated phrases, expressions, actions and NMFs, such as

  POSS1 TURN, POSS2 TURN

  ,

  for example, 'I spy', 'Fruit salad'

• 7 responding to Auslan stories through play-acting or movement, illustrating characters, events or scenes
• 8 using Auslan numbers 0–10, for example, sorting counters into groups and counting objects
• 9

  participating in simple dialogues in Auslan, for example, playing shops using classroom objects such as toys and books, and practising simple phrases,

  PRO1 WANT, PRO1 WANT-NOT, YES, NO, PRO1 LIKE, PRO1 LIKE-NOT

• 10 showing emotions through the use of NMFs, for example, responding to visual prompts and modifying emotions each time, such as being happy, sad, angry or tired
• 11 shadowing parts of a simple Auslan story

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