AC9LCH4C02 Year 3 Languages

AC9LCH4C02 – Year 3 Languages: Interacting in Chinese

Strand

Communicating meaning in Chinese

Substrand

Interacting in Chinese

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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

participate in activities that involve planning and transacting with others, using a range of phrases, structures and modelled sentences in familiar contexts

Elaborations

• plan and present a cultural item such as celebrating a festive occasion by reciting a poem, singing a song or performing a dance for members of the school community
• performing plays with allocated roles within groups, using puppets and props, for example, 猴子捞月
• participating in group activities and role-plays involving scenarios such as buying food/goods or ordering a meal, and making requests in an appropriate way, for example, 请来 ...; 我想买 ...; 请问，你有 ...吗？
• negotiating details in a transaction, such as stating preferred size, quantity or price and concluding the transaction with the exchange of currency, for example, 这条裙子太小了，有大一点的吗？可以便宜点吗？
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participating in traditional or contemporary games that involve taking turns, active listening, memory and information exchange, for example, Chinese Whispers
• following procedures or giving modelled instructions, for example, finding hidden treasure, making Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns or paper cranes
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reading their own work to others, for example, writing Chinese captions to accompany storybooks in English such as Where is the Green Sheep?, and reading it to younger students

Show 3 more elaborations

• working in teams to create word or sentence games, using digital applications, and then playing each other’s games
• interacting with guest speakers or classroom visitors during special occasions such as multicultural festivals or traditional Chinese festivals, for example, 中秋节
• planning and discussing cultural items to present for a school event, for example, performing a song, cooking Chinese food or making craft 剪纸, 做灯笼

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 3 ASLANCHIBLLF-1Y34

Year 3 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 4, students use Chinese language to initiate interactions to share information and ideas related to the classroom and their personal worlds. They use modelled language to participate in spoken and written activities that involve planning. They locate and respond to key items of information in texts, using strategies to help interpret and convey meaning in familiar contexts. They use familiar characters, Pinyin and modelled language to create texts. Students recognise and use sounds, tones, rhythms, syllables and intonation patterns of spoken Chinese. They demonstrate understanding that Chinese has non-verbal, spoken and written language conventions and rules to create and make meaning. They recognise that some terms have cultural meanings. They identify patterns in Chinese and make comparisons between Chinese and English. They understand that the Chinese language is connected with culture, and identify how this is reflected in their own language(s) and culture(s).