AC9L2F4U02 Years 3 to 4 Languages

Content descriptor recognise [Language] language conventions, grammatical structures and basic syntax, in familiar texts and contexts

Elaborations

• • Elaboration noticing patterns in languages, such as free and fixed word order and tenses in verbs, and making sentences without verbs
• • Elaboration adding a suffix to a verb to describe the number of people doing the action in simple sentences, for example, creating and completing a table to show variation in suffixes for verbs in [Language], such as I sing, you sing, they sing, we sing, or equivalent as appropriate in [Language]
• • Elaboration using pronouns and possessives, for example, he/his, she/her or you/your or equivalent as appropriate in [Language]
• • Elaboration recognising collective nouns for family members to describe kinship and documenting in a word chart
• • Elaboration adjusting words using prefixes and suffixes
• • Elaboration using repetition to express adverbs, intensifying meaning or to express plurality, for example, saying sick twice can mean you are very sick
• • Elaboration recognising temporal expressions, before, after, soon or equivalent as appropriate in [Language] and completing a quiz to practise

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• • Elaboration using modelled expressions of frequency, for example, often, always, once, briefly or equivalent as appropriate in [Language] to complete an information-gap activity
• • Elaboration recognising and using modelled locational cases such as in, at, near, besides, to, from or equivalent as appropriate in [Language], for example, giving directions or labelling a picture in a mapping activity or treasure hunt
• • Elaboration recognising and using imperatives in games, instructions and procedures, for example, listening to and following classroom instructions in [Language] or playing games such as saying, Take your turn in [Language]
• • Elaboration using simple conjunctions to join 2 sentences in [Language]