AC9LC4U03 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 familiar Chinese language features and compare with those of English, in known contexts

Elaborations

• 1 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？
• 2 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
• 3 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
• 4 recognising that Chinese uses measures, and comparing measure word usage in Chinese and English
• 5 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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