AC9L1F2C04 Year 1 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 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.

recognise that language carries cultural meaning in everyday social interactions

Elaborations

• 1 using classroom resources such as word banks, wall charts, visual dictionaries, word lists and pictures to translate the meaning of words and expressions from [Language] to English or other known language(s)
• 2 explaining the meaning of words, phrases, silences and gestures used in everyday contexts and situations, either from [Language] to other known language, or vice versa
• 3 playing matching-pair games using words and phrases used in everyday conversations in [Language] and in other known language(s)
• 4 showing others how different signs, gestures or hand talk are used, in particular for elements of the natural environment, such as water and animals
• 5 creating bilingual/multilingual texts or resources for various purposes, for example, writing captions or texts in [Language] to match a story
• 6 identifying symbols and explaining their meanings to others, for example, animal tracks or understanding the direction to take in a track, noticing bent branches
• 7 creating and performing short bilingual/multilingual chants, songs, raps that move between [Language] and other known language(s)
• 8 performing simple presentations for the school community that involve language and cultural elements from both [Language] and English or other known language(s), such as a contribution to an assembly or a performance for the wider community

Related Achievement Standards