AC9L2AU2C02 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.

participate in a range of guided, play-based language activities, using formulaic expressions and visual cues

Elaborations

• 1 participating in games that involve the use of repeated phrases, expressions, actions and NMFs, for example, 'I went to market, and I bought …', 'I have, you have?'
• 2

  following instructions that include simple DSs, to locate and move classroom objects or complete an action-based activity, such as an obstacle course, for example,

  DESK DS:PLACE-IN PUT

  Put it in the desk.

  TREE DS:WALK AROUND

  Walk around the tree.

• 3

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

  DS:LINE-UP PLEASE

  Line up, please.

  LOOK-AT PRO1

  Look at me.

  PLEASE WITH TWO

  Please find a partner.

• 4

  taking turns in games such as 'Go fish' or memory games, using appropriate signs and NMFs, for example,

  POSS2 TURN

  It’s your turn.

  PRO2 PICK-UP

  You pick up.

  THREE HAVE PRO2?

  Do you have a 3?

• 5

  swapping or ‘buying’ objects, using question signs and affirmative and negative answers, for example,

  HOW-MANY WANT?

  How many do you want?

  THAT HOW-MUCH?

  How much is that?

• 6

  interacting with a signing puppet or doll in an imaginary setting, for example, by signing simple questions such as

  POSS2 NAME, WHAT?

  What is your name?

  PRO2 LIKE FS: DO WHAT?

  What do you like to do?

• 7 watching group performances of rehearsed role plays and joining in expressions of support such as the use of deaf applause

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