AC9LAF03 Foundation Languages

Content descriptor explore connections between language and culture

Elaborations

• • Elaboration watching simple clips showing famous sites, foods, dress, cultural activities, events and associated language in Arabic-speaking communities and discussing observations and what was interesting, surprising, familiar, etc.
• • Elaboration participating in a class or school event celebrating Arab culture(s) and language(s), and trying some traditional foods, games, listening to a guest speaker or dancing to traditional music
• • Elaboration locating Arabic-speaking countries and regions on a world map, understanding that Arabic is spoken in Australia and around the world, noticing how local names of streets, places and landmarks can have their origins in language(s) of First Nations Australians
• • Elaboration using the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) map of the languages of Australia to notice the language(s) of First Nations Australians in their local area and/or across Australia
• • Elaboration exploring the different languages, dialects and gestures used by class members and listening to the different sounds and ways of saying common words or expressions such as “Good morning”, “My name is …” صباح الفل/صباح النور/صباح الخير اسمي ...
• • Elaboration observing, through a variety of authentic resources and materials, that members of various Arabic-speaking communities may say and do everyday things differently from themselves such as المصافحة، التقبيل على الخد، بدء وجبة الطعام مع ذكر الله
• • Elaboration exchanging ideas, feelings and understandings of language and culture through play-based learning experiences such as playing dress-ups, making a pretend restaurant or market stands, with props, realia and puppets, for example, ماذا لديك؟ طبق فتوش (لبنان)، كشري (مصر)، كبسة (الخليج) ماهذا العَلم؟ أعلام البلدان