AC9LCH4U01 Year 3 Languages

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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 reading aloud 朗诵 and reciting 背诵, focusing on phrasing, stress and intonation of spoken Chinese
• 2 engaging in activities to consolidate tonal awareness, using hand gestures, including the use of neutral tone, for example, 是吗, 走吧, 好了
• 3

  differentiating the 4 tones when speaking, and knowing when and how to pronounce the ‘neutral tone’, for example, repetition of syllables in ‘ma-ma’

• 4 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
• 5 playing pair-matching card games, for example, matching Pinyin to syllables
• 6 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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