AC9LCH2U01
Years 1 to 2
Languages
AC9LCH2U01 | Years 1 to 2 Chinese: Understanding language and culture
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor recognise and use sound patterns and tones of Chinese
Background language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding language and culture
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 1 to 2 Chinese · Background language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration 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》
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration writing a complete Pinyin with a correct tone mark and demonstrating understanding that tones can change meaning, for example, 睡觉和水饺
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration singing a Pinyin alphabet song, demonstrating understanding that Pinyin is the romanisation of the sounds of Chinese
- • Elaboration playing pair-matching card games, for example, matching tones, initial to final
- • Elaboration 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
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- • Elaboration 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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