AC9L1F6C04 Year 5 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

apply strategies to interpret and convey meaning in [Language] language in non-verbal, spoken and written cultural contexts

Elaborations

• 1 translating a range of familiar texts such as health clinic information, songs, reports and recounts, using visual and print dictionaries, word lists and pictures
• 2 translating texts such as songs and stories, and identifying culture-specific concepts and expressions that do not easily translate into English, for example, language related to artefacts, landforms, traditional foods, kinship terms of address, and name substitutes
• 3 explaining visual designs and performances to others, including the use of symbolism
• 4 showing others how different signs and hand talk are used and explaining their meaning and symbolism
• 5 creating a bilingual/multilingual brochure or poster about their community for a visitor, including a map of key features, protocols, cultural information or posters to promote health and wellbeing
• 6 creating bilingual/multilingual texts such as stories, cartoons, songs and photo stories, and reflecting on how different meanings are communicated in different languages for different audiences
• 7 identifying and working out the meaning of unfamiliar English words and expressions used in other curriculum areas, including technical language, and discussing how they would explain their meaning in [Language], for example, paper, Bunsen burners, safe houses, GPS, photocopying, clicking and dragging
• 8 reflecting on how they communicate in [Language] with their own family, friends, people less close or unknown to them, or in public, noticing differences in language use and communicative behaviour
• 9 identifying and discussing contexts in their community where translators and interpreters may be required

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