AC9LCH4U01
Years 3 to 4
Languages
AC9LCH4U01 | Years 3 to 4 Chinese: Understanding language and culture
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor recognise and use the tonal features of Chinese in different contexts and understand how syllables are represented in Pinyin
Background language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding language and culture
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 3 to 4 Chinese · Background language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration reading aloud 朗诵 and reciting 背诵, focusing on phrasing, stress and intonation of spoken Chinese
- • Elaboration engaging in activities to consolidate tonal awareness, using hand gestures, including the use of neutral tone, for example, 是吗, 走吧, 好了
- • Elaboration differentiating the 4 tones when speaking, and knowing when and how to pronounce the ‘neutral tone’, for example, repetition of syllables in ‘ma-ma’
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration playing pair-matching card games, for example, matching Pinyin to syllables
- • Elaboration 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
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