AC9LC6U03 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.

compare some Chinese language structures and features with those of English, using some familiar metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 comparing possessive pronouns in Chinese and English
• 3 writing the date in Chinese and comparing with English, for example, practising writing the date daily
• 4 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’
• 5 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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