AC9LCH4U02 Years 3 to 4 Languages

Content descriptor recognise and use features of the Chinese writing system, familiar components and/or characters, a range of sentence structures and basic syntax, in familiar texts and contexts

Elaborations

• • Elaboration using Chinese writing conventions 方块字, including direction of text and punctuation
• • Elaboration applying rules of stroke direction and stroke order when writing characters, paying attention to details such as length of a stroke to discriminate similar forms, for example, 土 and 士
• • Elaboration making connections between basic characters and related component forms such as radicals 手 and扌, 人 and 亻, identifying the structure and components of a compound character, for example, 学 has 2 components and they are of top-and-bottom structure
• • Elaboration mixing and matching Chinese characters to make new meanings, for example, building new words using familiar characters 大山, 火山, 山火, 林火, 王子, 大王, 女王
• • Elaboration categorising Chinese characters with common components such as 花, 草, 菜, and identifying connections between the meanings and sounds of these components and the characters themselves, for example, 目 (eye in) 看 (to look at)
• • Elaboration recognising that there are multiple ways to structure a sentence, such as 我吃了早饭后去学校。 and 吃了早饭后，我去学校。
• • Elaboration using reduplication adjectives in sentences, such as 高高的, 瘦瘦的 to describe people, animals and objects

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• • Elaboration using adverbs to modify actions, for example, 高兴地跳起来
• • Elaboration experimenting with the use of prepositions such as 上面, 下面, 里里外外, 在中间, for example, 小鸟在天上飞。 means ‘The bird flies in the sky’, rather than the literal translation ‘The bird flies above the sky.’
• • Elaboration recognising basic structures of closed and open-ended questions, for example, 你喜欢听童话吗？你为什么喜欢《小红帽》？
• • Elaboration elaborating ideas in sentences, including details such as time, manner and place, for example, 星期一我从上海坐飞机到北京。