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AC9LC2U01: Year 1 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LC2U01 Year 1 Languages

AC9LC2U01 – Year 1 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

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.

Content Descriptor

recognise and imitate the sounds and rhythms of Chinese

Elaborations

  • • listening to and engaging with the rhythms and sound patterns in conversations with teachers and peers, imitating and practising the tones, such as those used in greetings 你好, 王老师, 再见, 谢谢, 非常好, 很棒 through, for example, choral reading, songs, flashcards and video clips
  • • participating in tone guessing activities, such as listening to the teacher saying 马 and guessing the correct tone, recording the answer by writing a tone mark or indicating with their body, and demonstrating understanding that tones can change meaning, for example, 马 and 妈
  • • singing a Pinyin alphabet song, demonstrating understanding that Pinyin is the romanisation of the sounds of Chinese
  • • identifying syllables that make up Chinese words, for example, 小老鼠, and demonstrating understanding that words such as 熊猫 have 2 syllables, with each syllable having a meaning
  • • listening to, viewing and performing poems, rhymes or simple stories, for example, 小白兔, 拔萝卜, 爱我你就抱抱我; repeating phrases and rhythms to emphasise key pronunciation points, for example, chanting 恭喜, 恭喜, 恭喜你呀!
  • • playing pair matching card games, for example, matching tones, initial to final

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 1 ASLANCHISLF10Y12
Year 1 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 2, students use Chinese language to interact and share information related to the classroom and themselves. They use cues to respond to questions and instructions, and use simple formulaic language. They locate and convey key items of information in texts using non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They use familiar words and modelled language to create text. They copy some familiar characters and Pinyin.Students imitate the sounds, tones and rhythms of Chinese. They demonstrate understanding that Chinese has rules for non-verbal communication, pronunciation and writing, and that characters are a form of writing and Pinyin reflects the sounds of spoken Chinese. They give examples of similarities and differences between some features of Chinese and English. They understand that language is connected with culture, and notice how this is reflected in their own language(s) and culture(s).