AC9LCH2U02 Years 1 to 2 Languages

Content descriptor recognise that Chinese components and/or characters and features of language are used to construct meaning

Elaborations

• • Elaboration making and copying components, characters and/or words, using playdough, strings, found objects, blocks and chalk
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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’
• • Elaboration noticing similarities and differences between punctuation conventions in Chinese and English such as full stops, exclamation marks and question marks
• • Elaboration understanding that there are basic rules of word order in Chinese subject+verb+object, as in English
• • Elaboration using common adjectives such as 高, 矮, 小, 大, 新, 旧 to describe people, animals and objects in modelled sentences

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• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration using some question words in familiar contexts, for example, 吗, 谁,什么,哪里,多少,什么时候，几点
• • Elaboration 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