AC9LC4U01 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.

recognise and use modelled combinations of sounds, tone-syllable pronunciation and intonation patterns to form words and phrases, and understand that Pinyin is the romanisation of characters

Elaborations

• 1 recognising and demonstrating Chinese combinations of sounds, pronunciation and intonation patterns in Chinese tongue twisters or nursery rhyme performances, for example, 白猫黑鼻子, 黑猫白鼻子, 白猫的黑鼻子碰破了黑猫的白鼻子, 黑猫的白鼻子碰破了白猫的黑鼻子
• 2 demonstrating understanding of the four tones in Chinese, and recognising when and why some tones are not expressed, for example, repetition of syllables in ‘ma-ma’, neutral tone on second syllable
• 3 explaining the use of Pinyin as a learning tool to reflect the sound of Chinese spoken language, recognising sounds associated with different letters and syllables
• 4 engaging in activities to raise tonal awareness, for example, listening to familiar vocabulary and demonstrating understanding of tones using gestures or adding tones on Pinyin, in an expression such as 妈妈骂马
• 5 playing pair matching card games, for example, matching character to Pinyin

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