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AC9LCH2U02: Year 1 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding language and culture
AC9LCH2U02 Year 1 Languages

AC9LCH2U02 – 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 that Chinese components and/or characters and features of language are used to construct meaning

Elaborations

  • • making and copying components, characters and/or words, using playdough, strings, found objects, blocks and chalk
  • • copying and tracing words and phrases with attention to stroke order, using air gestures, chalk, writing in sand and mini whiteboards, or using a different colour for each stroke to create rainbow writing
  • • making connections among characters sharing the same radicals such as water 氵 in 河, 池, 海, and discussing the importance of water in daily life
  • • learning that Chinese words are made up of 2 or more characters, with each character contributing meaning to the word, for example, 大人, literally ‘big person’ which means ‘adult’
  • • noticing similarities and differences between punctuation conventions in Chinese and English such as full stops, exclamation marks and question marks
  • • understanding that there are basic rules of word order in Chinese subject+verb+object, as in English
  • • using common adjectives such as 高, 矮, 小, 大, 新, 旧 to describe people, animals and objects in modelled sentences
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  • • recognising common prepositions relating to location, for example, 里面, 外面, 上面, 下面, 中间, for example, responding to meaning of prepositions in a treasure hunt
  • • using some question words in familiar contexts, for example, 吗, 谁,什么,哪里,多少,什么时候，几点
  • • using basic measure words in modelled sentences between numbers and subject to describe quantity 个, 只 such as 两个苹果, 三只羊

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).