AC9LC4U03
Years 3 to 4
Languages
AC9LC4U03 | Years 3 to 4 Chinese: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor recognise familiar Chinese language features and compare with those of English, in known contexts
Second language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 3 to 4 Chinese · Second language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration comparing the similarities and differences of Chinese sentence structure with English subject+verb+object, and questions, for example, comparing “Do you have a cat?” versus 你有猫吗？, or “What's your name?” with 你叫什么名字？
- • Elaboration exploring the Pinyin alphabet and comparing with Roman alphabet, recognising that initials such as ‘x’, ‘q’, ‘c’, ‘zh’, ‘g’, ‘shi’, ‘chi’, ‘zhi’, ‘pi’, ‘ji’ and vowels such as ‘i’, ‘e’, ‘u’, ‘ie’ are pronounced differently from English
- • Elaboration recognising grammatical features and how their use differs in Chinese and English, for example, recognising the lack of articles in Chinese, that adjectives can be used as verbs, and the limited use of the verb ‘to be’ 是
- • Elaboration recognising that Chinese uses measures, and comparing measure word usage in Chinese and English
- • Elaboration discussing differences in Chinese names and English names, for example, discussing how Chinese surnames are written first and given names follow
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