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AC9LCH4U01: Year 3 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding language and culture
AC9LCH4U01 Year 3 Languages

AC9LCH4U01 – Year 3 Languages: Understanding language and culture

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding language and culture

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

recognise and use the tonal features of Chinese in different contexts and understand how syllables are represented in Pinyin

Elaborations

  • • reading aloud 朗诵 and reciting 背诵, focusing on phrasing, stress and intonation of spoken Chinese
  • • engaging in activities to consolidate tonal awareness, using hand gestures, including the use of neutral tone, for example, 是吗, 走吧, 好了
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    differentiating the 4 tones when speaking, and knowing when and how to pronounce the ‘neutral tone’, for example, repetition of syllables in ‘ma-ma’

  • • explaining the use of Pinyin as a learning tool to reflect the sounds of spoken Chinese, recognising sounds associated with letters and syllables that are different from English sounds
  • • playing pair-matching card games, for example, matching Pinyin to syllables
  • • investigating diversity in spoken Chinese and identifying differences in phonology across dialects, for example, exploring greetings in dialects such as Cantonese, Hakka and Shanghainese, and comparing the pronunciation of words

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).