AC9L2F6U03 Years 5 to 6 Languages

Content descriptor compare some [Language] language structures and features with those of English, using some familiar metalanguage

Elaborations

• • Elaboration working with a range of text types, for example, listening to interviews with Elders and/or community members, connecting these with a timeline and reading a short matching biography
• • Elaboration developing metalanguage for talking about language, such as noun phrases, prefixes and suffixes, for example, understanding ways of approaching verbs such as I sit, you sit, they sit, we sit (exclusive and inclusive) or equivalent if appropriate in [Language]
• • Elaboration distinguishing the purpose and reason for a range of texts such as different types of archived language texts, for example, dictionaries with recordings of words, stories and their translations, grammar guides or children’s books
• • Elaboration explaining their own or others' artwork or visual representations of stories, through labelling or describing metaphors or symbols
• • Elaboration discussing loan words that have been incorporated from other languages to describe new concepts, for example, engineered words to describe technological innovations such as computer, skyscraper and car
• • Elaboration discussing the etymology of words and comparing with English, such as starfish in [Language] and English, or placenames that have been taken from [Language] and changed
• • Elaboration building sentences with an understanding of word order, using verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs, for example, The dog has a short tail. The dog is black and hairy., in [Language] as appropriate