AC9LCH6U01 Year 5 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

use tone-syllables, intonation, stress and phrasing to express feelings and opinions

Elaborations

• 1 reading the lyrics of Chinese pop songs, modelled texts, tongue twisters, poems and news aloud to other learners, with attention to tones and pronunciation
• 2 using digital tools to check the correct pronunciation of Chinese and using voice-recording apps to check their own tone and intonation, to develop fluency
• 3

  recognising syllable changes in speech, including change of tonal value and tone changes such as 不要 bú yào

• 4 recognising how tone marks affect pronunciation and meaning, for example, changing the tones 啊, 哦 can convey different meaning, depending on context
• 5 playing speaking games to demonstrate different emotions using features of pronunciation for effect, for example, reading the sentence 怎么是你？ or 我不相信你考了九十分。 with happiness, sadness or anger
• 6 understanding that Chinese has different regional accents such as accents spoken by people living in different provinces of China, Chinese-speaking communities in Taiwan and Southeast of Asia

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