AC9LCH10EU01 Years 9 to 10 Languages

Content descriptor demonstrate how features and conventions of spoken Chinese can extend fluency when responding to and creating texts appropriate to contexts, purposes and audiences

Elaborations

• • Elaboration listening to interactions between unfamiliar voices at different speeds or levels of clarity to develop auditory and comprehension skills, and applying similar pronunciation to spoken texts, for example, reading a news story in a similar way to a news reporter
• • Elaboration discriminating between unfamiliar homonyms in Chinese such as 加油（打气/补充油） and enhancing fluency by practising rap songs or stand-up comedy in Chinese
• • Elaboration identifying regional variation in pronunciation and/or tone across different Chinese-speaking environments, for example, 和 pronounced hé in mainland China but may be pronounced as hàn in Taiwan
• • Elaboration experimenting with rhythm, pace, tone and stress, and developing strategies to enhance their own communication with others, for example, taking on the role of a flight attendant and saying 女士们， 先生们， 我们的航班将在几分钟后起飞 (BL) or practising formal presentations or dramatic performances, for example, 众所周知／显而易见／总而言之 (L1)
• • Elaboration using dictionaries or digital tools to help with learning and knowing characters and pronunciation
• • Elaboration presenting an argument in a debate, using strategies such as emphasis and persuasion in oral presentation, with a focus on fluency and audience
• • Elaboration reading aloud a poem in different ways, using intonation, rhythm, pace, tone and stress to convey a range of meanings such as happiness, sarcasm, jealousy (BL) or quoting traditional literature, such as famous lines from poems (L1)