AC9LC6C04 Year 5 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

apply strategies to interpret and convey meaning in Chinese language in familiar non-verbal, spoken and written cultural contexts

Elaborations

• 1 identifying Chinese symbols in print and digital texts, such as the longevity symbol, and developing ways to convey the culturally attached value when expressing the meaning of these symbols in English
• 2 comparing simple sentences in Chinese language with online-translated sentences, for example, comparing the sentence, “I like Chinese” that is often translated as, “I like Chinese people” or “I like Chinese language”, and discussing why an online translator might give an inaccurate translation
• 3 sharing their own translation of short texts (brand names, signs, slogans, billboard advertisements, etc.) with others, and evaluating the effectiveness of their own translation

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