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AC9LCH2U01: Year 1 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding language and culture
AC9LCH2U01 Year 1 Languages

AC9LCH2U01 – Year 1 Languages: Understanding language and culture

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
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.

Content Descriptor

recognise and use sound patterns and tones of Chinese

Elaborations

  • • 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》
  • • 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
  • • writing a complete Pinyin with a correct tone mark and demonstrating understanding that tones can change meaning, for example, 睡觉和水饺
  • • 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
  • • singing a Pinyin alphabet song, demonstrating understanding that Pinyin is the romanisation of the sounds of Chinese
  • • playing pair-matching card games, for example, matching tones, initial to final
  • • 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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  • • 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》

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 1 ASLANCHIBLLF-1Y12
Year 1 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 2, students use Chinese language to interact and share information related to the classroom and themselves. They use cues to respond to questions and instructions, and use formulaic language. They locate and convey key items of information in texts using non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They use familiar words and modelled language to create texts. They recognise and use familiar characters and Pinyin to make words and sentences. Students recognise and use the sounds, tones and rhythms of spoken Chinese. They demonstrate understanding that Chinese has rules for non-verbal communication, pronunciation and writing. They give examples of similarities and differences between features of Chinese and English. They understand that language is connected with culture, and notice how this is reflected in their own language(s) and culture(s).