AC9LCF02 Foundation Languages

This Content Descriptor from Foundation 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.

explore, with support, language features of Chinese noticing similarities and differences between Chinese and English

Elaborations

• 1 exploring the four tones, for example, copying the teacher and representing the different tones using hand gestures
• 2 recognising Chinese characters from other forms of written expression, for example, recognising the Roman alphabet, and visual images (drawing), and comparing the sound and shape of each
• 3 recognising that characters have meaning, and exploring the connection between meaning and form, for example, identifying pictographs, such as 人 and 火, and developing mnemonics to remember characters
• 4 copying or tracing high frequency characters, such as numbers, with attention to stroke order and direction
• 5 observing connections between characters sharing the same pictograph, guessing the meaning and making connections with nature, for example, recognising ‘sun’ 日, 早, 星, 明 and discussing how the sun is connected to life on earth
• 6 experimenting with the forms of Chinese characters with hands-on play to recreate characters using plasticine, stones, found objects, writing in the sandpit, chalk, big brushes and water on concrete, etc.

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