AC9LCH2U01 – Year 1 Languages: Understanding language and culture

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.

Elaborations

• 1 listening to and performing nursery rhymes and stories with rhythms, tones and sound patterns, or tongue twisters such as 《猴子穿新衣》,《四和十》
• 2 participating in tone-guessing activities such as listening to the teacher or a peer saying 妈/马 and guessing the correct tone, or listening to and identifying the 4 tones and the neutral tone, and responding with appropriate actions
• 3 writing a complete Pinyin with a correct tone mark and demonstrating understanding that tones can change meaning, for example, 睡觉和水饺
• 4 recording their pronunciation of different tones and playing a game with peers, such as 猜猜是谁说的, to identify the differences in their own spoken language
• 5 singing a Pinyin alphabet song, demonstrating understanding that Pinyin is the romanisation of the sounds of Chinese
• 6 playing pair-matching card games, for example, matching tones, initial to final
• 7 identifying syllables that make up Chinese words, for example, 小老鼠, and demonstrating understanding that words such as 熊猫 have 2 syllables, with each syllable having a meaning
• 8 developing fluency of sentences in Chinese, using gesture to help demonstrate tone and stress, for example, reciting classic Chinese poems such as 李白《静夜思》

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