AC9LC6U03
Years 5 to 6
Languages
AC9LC6U03 | Years 5 to 6 Chinese: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor compare some Chinese language structures and features with those of English, using some familiar metalanguage
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 5 to 6 Chinese · Second language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration recognising grammatical features and how their use differs in Chinese and English, for example, recognising the lack of articles in Chinese, and that adjectives can be used as verbs 他是老鼠, 他很胖
- • Elaboration comparing possessive pronouns in Chinese and English
- • Elaboration writing the date in Chinese and comparing with English, for example, practising writing the date daily
- • Elaboration comparing the use of tenses in English and Chinese, for example, how future tense is often expressed through time phrases in Chinese 我明天去北京, 下个星期去上海 and that in Chinese, verbs convey tense without verb conjugation, for example, explaining why 有 can mean ‘have’, ‘had’ and ‘will have’
- • Elaboration discussing, “What is the plural form?” and “How do we know it is plural when reading in English?” and developing knowledge of metalanguage
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