AC9LC6C03 Years 5 to 6 Languages

Content descriptor locate and process information and ideas in a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, and respond in different ways to suit purpose

Elaborations

• • Elaboration reading and responding to detail in texts, for example, reading a basic information report about the daily life of a panda and using this information to create an informative poster or short presentation about Chinese pandas
• • Elaboration listening to a weather report, or looking at a weather chart and responding to questions with modelled phrases such as 今天天气怎么样？今天有大雨, 小雨, 天气很好
• • Elaboration reading stories containing familiar and some unfamiliar language and summarising the story using a sequence of matching pictures
• • Elaboration listening to, or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories and responding to them using words, formulaic expressions and modelled sentences in Chinese
• • Elaboration reading short stories in groups, and conveying the emotions and opinions of characters using, for example, 最, 非常, 太
• • Elaboration listening to, and viewing a range of informative texts to identify key points, for example, answering questions from classmates about the procedure and main ingredients for a Chinese or Taiwanese dish from a cooking show
• • Elaboration using textual cues, such as 听一听小明的一天, to predict possible content when listening to spoken texts, and preparing to listen for key information (time, activities, etc.)