AC9LC4U02 Years 3 to 4 Languages

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

• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration using 的 to join adjectives and nouns 红色的鱼, 白色的马
• • Elaboration creating and exploring simple subject+verb+object sentences with peers using a sentence slider, flashcards, visuals, dice, or rearranging modelled sentences
• • Elaboration using subject+ 是 sentence structures to create a basic sentence, for example, 这是, 他是, 我是
• • Elaboration 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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• • Elaboration 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