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AC9LC4U02: Year 3 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LC4U02 Year 3 Languages

AC9LC4U02 – Year 3 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

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.

Content Descriptor

recognise some features of the Chinese writing system, familiar components and/or characters, simple sentence structures and basic syntax, in familiar texts and contexts

Elaborations

  • • mixing and matching Chinese characters to make new meanings, for example, building new words using familiar characters 大山, 火山, 山火, 林火, 王子, 大王, 女王
  • • making connections between basic characters and related component forms, such as radicals 手, 人 and 亻, and recognising the number and arrangement of components in a compound character, for example, demonstrating understanding that 众 has 3 components and 打 has 2 components, and that 亻 is on the left-hand side
  • • engaging with a range of basic characters and components and exploring their individual meanings, for example, 大, 小, 足, 手, categorising, organising and sorting characters based on the same radical 木, 林, 森, 休, and creating a visual diagram to group words with the same radical
  • • using 的 to join adjectives and nouns 红色的鱼,  白色的马
  • • creating and exploring simple subject+verb+object sentences with peers using a sentence slider, flashcards, visuals, dice, or rearranging modelled sentences
  • • using subject+ 是 sentence structures to create a basic sentence, for example, 这是, 他是, 我是
  • • following patterns of word order and sentence structure and using negation when creating sentences to express own meanings, for example, replacing the subject pronoun in 我喜欢绿色 to create the sentence 我妈妈不喜欢绿色
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  • • demonstrating understanding that the word ‘two’ 二 is different when counting objects using 两, and using basic measure words in modelled sentences between numbers and subject to describe quantity 个, 只 such as 两个苹果, 三只羊

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 3 ASLANCHISLF10Y34
Year 3 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 4, students use Chinese language to initiate structured interactions to share information related to the classroom and their personal world. They use modelled language to participate in spoken and written activities that involve planning. They locate and respond to key items of information in texts using strategies to help interpret and convey meaning in familiar contexts. They use modelled language and basic syntax to create texts. They use familiar characters appropriate to context and make connections with the spelling and tone marks of Pinyin.Students imitate sounds, tones, pronunciation, and intonation patterns of Chinese language. They demonstrate understanding that Chinese has non-verbal, spoken and written language conventions and rules to create and make meaning. They recognise that some terms have cultural meanings. They identify patterns in Chinese and make comparisons between Chinese and English. They understand that the Chinese language is connected with culture, and identify how this is reflected in their own language(s) and culture(s).