AC9LC4C05 Year 3 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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.

create and present informative and imaginative spoken, written and multimodal texts using formulaic expressions, simple sentences and modelled textual conventions, familiar characters appropriate to context, and/or Pinyin

Elaborations

• 1 using a set of modelled sentences, such as 我的狗叫..., 它三岁了, 它喜欢..., 它的毛是黑色的, creating imaginary animals, pets or characters, and presenting them through performance (a puppet show, etc.) or using digital tools to digitally display a cartoon, for example, 这是龙, 他叫长龙, 他五岁了, 他喜欢饺子, 他很大
• 2 creating alternative versions of stories or action songs (nursery rhymes, etc.) using voice, rhythm, and gestures to animate characters, or using support materials (drawings, story maps, etc.) to create visual contexts, for example, changing the animals in 两只老虎 to 三只老鼠
• 3 designing a poster, PowerPoint, invitation, card for a specific event, a menu or creating a picture book or word wall, for example, producing a poster to represent the Chinese zodiac, displaying characters and/or Pinyin such as 中秋节, 动物
• 4 creating simple descriptions in Chinese and matching them to appropriate First Nations Country/Place locations in their local area or elsewhere in Australia
• 5

  adapting familiar story books such as The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Where Is the Green Sheep? and Brown Bear, and changing some of the vocabulary, "What would the caterpillar eat in Mainland China/Taiwan/Hong Kong?", or changing the food, colours, animals in the book(s) using a set list of words

• 6 drawing a picture of a nature scene or an imaginary monster/animal and labelling it in characters and Pinyin
• 7 producing a rap with a partner from a list of learnt vocabulary and phrases such as 水果, 动物, 家人, 数字

Related Achievement Standards