AC9LCH6U01
Years 5 to 6
Languages
AC9LCH6U01 | Years 5 to 6 Chinese: Understanding language and culture
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor use tone-syllables, intonation, stress and phrasing to express feelings and opinions
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 5 to 6 Chinese · Background language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration reading the lyrics of Chinese pop songs, modelled texts, tongue twisters, poems and news aloud to other learners, with attention to tones and pronunciation
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration recognising syllable changes in speech, including change of tonal value and tone changes such as 不要 bú yào
- • Elaboration recognising how tone marks affect pronunciation and meaning, for example, changing the tones 啊, 哦 can convey different meaning, depending on context
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration 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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