AC9LCH2U03 Years 1 to 2 Languages

Content descriptor recognise that Chinese has features that may be similar to or different from English

Elaborations

• • Elaboration noticing that simple statements in Chinese tend to follow the same word order as in English; subject+verb+object
• • Elaboration discussing the placement of words in Chinese, for example, ‘happy’ in English ‘Happy Birthday’ and ‘Happy New Year’ versus 生日快乐, 新年快乐
• • Elaboration comparing the vowel sounds of English with the main vowel sounds of Chinese, such as a, e, i, o and u, to develop awareness
• • Elaboration developing number knowledge and identifying the similarities and differences between using cardinal and ordinal numbers in Chinese and English, for example, comparing十一 with 11, and comparing 第一 with first
• • Elaboration comparing bilingual texts (picture books, multimedia texts, songs, cartoons, etc.), noticing similarities and differences, such as features of punctuation and text organisation across languages, for example, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star 《小星星》
• • Elaboration recognising that languages use words borrowed from other languages, and that many English and French words are used in Chinese such as 汉堡包, 咖啡, 可乐, 巴士
• • Elaboration learning metalanguage for word types, for example, exploring what are considered verbs in English and adjectival verbs in Chinese 天天打篮球的哥哥长高了。