AC9LC2U01 – Year 1 Languages: 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.

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 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
• 3 singing a Pinyin alphabet song, demonstrating understanding that Pinyin is the romanisation of the sounds of Chinese
• 4 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
• 5 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!
• 6 playing pair matching card games, for example, matching tones, initial to final

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