AC9LCH2C04 Year 1 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 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.

recognise that language carries cultural meaning in everyday social interactions

Elaborations

• 1 discussing the meanings and different implications between 我要去厕所。and 我可以去厕所吗？
• 2 showing politeness in different contexts, for example, making requests 请, 请问, thanking someone using 非常感谢
• 3 learning about etiquette in everyday social contexts such as how to address adults, for example, 王阿姨好, 马叔叔好
• 4 understanding Chinese cultural gestures, for example, standing up to greet a teacher, receiving an object with both hands or counting numbers 1–10 with fingers
• 5 creating bilingual resources such as illustrated Chinese-English and English-Chinese wall charts or digital flashcards
• 6 discussing Chinese words or expressions that appear to have no equivalent in English, for example, 哪里哪里,不要客气,快吃吧！
• 7 discussing meanings of colloquial phrases used on specific occasions, for example, 恭喜发财 to give New Year wishes, and exploring how such sentiments are expressed in English
• 8 interpreting language, facial expressions and other visual cues to inform their own response to characters and stories presented in animations or songs, for example, 《年的故事》

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