AC9LC8EU01
Years 7 to 8
Languages
AC9LC8EU01 | Years 7 to 8 Chinese: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor recognise and use tone-syllable pronunciation and intonation patterns to form words and phrases, and Pinyin to support learning pronunciation
Second language learners · Years 7 to 10 sequence
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 7 to 8 Chinese · Second language learners · Years 7 to 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration exploring key features of Chinese phonology, examining the range of sounds and recognising how spoken syllables and tones are represented in Pinyin by spelling words in Pinyin, or reading aloud words and sentences in Pinyin with attention to pronunciation, tone and phrasing
- • Elaboration differentiating between sounds and tones when listening to or producing spoken Chinese, for example, distinguishing between 我买 and 我卖东西, or 床 and 穿
- • Elaboration recognising and discriminating between homonyms in Chinese, for example, 是 and 室, relying on contexts to assist understanding, and differentiating syllables with different tones, for example, 是 and 十
- • Elaboration performing Chinese songs and experimenting with rhythm, voice, emotion and gesture, to convey the intended sentiment, and exploring the meaning and message
- • Elaboration listening to Chinese words showing the tones on a computer, recording the same words with the same tonal sounds, and playing back the recording to check pronunciation
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