AC9LA8EU01 Years 7 to 8 Languages

Content descriptor recognise and use features of the Arabic sound system, including pitch, rhythm, stress, pronunciation and intonation, and demonstrate understanding of how these are represented in familiar contexts

Elaborations

• • Elaboration recognising and pronouncing the 28 sounds of the Arabic sound system
• • Elaboration noticing and practising different mouth and tongue positions to reproduce sounds such as the 4 emphatic consonants, articulated with the tongue in a high position
• • Elaboration recognising that letters are joined in different ways to make words, for example, باب، خال، حال، هذا، هي
• • Elaboration discriminating between short vowels, for example, تْ ت تِ تُ long vowels such as تا تي تو and consonant letters in a syllable block
• • Elaboration recognising the different ways of sounding ا و ي consonants, for example, بي/ بابا، وَلد/ توت
• • Elaboration recognising the double sound and consonants with shadda دَرَّسَ، أحبَّ، أحسَّ
• • Elaboration noticing that vocalisation such as harakat may change the function of the word depending on where it is placed, for example, كَتَبَ، كُتُب، لَعِبَ، لُعَب

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• • Elaboration reciting tongue twisters to practise pronunciation خيط حرير على حيط خليل
• • Elaboration understanding how intonation and tone are used to change the meaning of speech, and how the purpose of interactions such as to command or invite, would change the emphasis on words being used, for example, !ندى، تعالي! تعالي يا ندى، ضع الكتاب على الطاولة، الكتاب، ضعه على الطاولة الآن
• • Elaboration understanding that the sounds of the letters depend on the mood of the sentence in Arabic, and the need to memorise the pronunciation of the sun and moon letters
• • Elaboration identifying Arabic sounds that do not exist in spoken English, for example, ح and غ, and articulating reasons why some Arabic sounds may be hard for English speakers to vocalise, such as the rolled r and kh sound