AC9L1F6U02
Year 5
Languages
AC9L1F6U02 – Year 5 Languages: Understanding systems of language
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language
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.
Content Description
use knowledge of modelled grammatical structures and formulaic expressions to compose and respond to texts
Elaborations
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1
making comparisons and identifying patterns in and among languages, for example, free and fixed word order, tense in verbs, and use of affixes versus prepositions
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2
changing tenses of verbs by adding a suffix to a base verb and completing an information-gap exercise
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3
demonstrating main topical areas of [Language] vocabulary, such as groupings of natural species, cardinal directions, and kinship system, and contrast these with English vocabulary groupings, by developing a chart
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4
using collective nouns for family members to describe extended kinship
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