AC9LC6U01 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 knowledge of tone-syllables, intonation, stress and phrasing to develop fluency and pronunciation to known words and phrases

Elaborations

• 1 exploring and discussing the difference in Pinyin pronunciation by reading out words written in Pinyin with attention to Chinese pronunciation and tone, identifying some initials such as ‘x’ in 谢谢, ‘q’ in 请, ‘zh’ in 中国, ‘c’ in 草
• 2 reading Chinese nursery rhymes, modelled texts and poems out loud to other learners, with attention to tones and pronunciation
• 3 recognising familiar language spoken by different voices and using Pinyin to transcribe the sound of words and sentences
• 4 discriminating between homonyms in Chinese such as 是 and 室, relying on contextual cues to assist understanding, and differentiating syllables with different tones, for example, 是 and 十
• 5 using digital tools to check the correct pronunciation of Chinese and using voice recording apps to check their own tone and intonation
• 6 discussing how English language stress and intonation cannot be used when making Chinese language sentences

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