AC9LCH6U02 Years 5 to 6 Languages

Content descriptor identify and use components and/or characters, sentence structures, syntax and writing system features to compose and respond to familiar and some unfamiliar texts and contexts

Elaborations

• • Elaboration analysing common simple and compound characters through a number of examples, 找, 提, 挑, 打 and identifying the possible placement of specific radicals and components in a compound character, for example, the placement of 扌on the left-hand side, through digital or board games
• • Elaboration using digital tools to write a specific character, and obtaining its pronunciation by using online dictionaries
• • Elaboration developing understanding of 6 types of Chinese characters such as pictographs 象形字 and phono-semantic characters 形声字
• • Elaboration inferring meaning of unfamiliar words from known morphemes, for example, 学生, 学校, 小学
• • Elaboration using appropriate punctuation in writing, including commas, full stops, question marks, semicolons, colons, inverted commas and exclamation marks
• • Elaboration exploring and beginning to build more complex messages, using joining words 也,和,conjunction words 因为 ... 所以 ..., 虽然 ... 但是 ..., 不但 ... 而且 ..., sequence words 首先 ... 其次 ... 接着 ... 最后 ...
• • Elaboration discriminating between the contextual meanings of characters with multiple meanings such as 家 in 家人 and in 画家, or that 冷 means cold in 冷水 and quiet in 冷清

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• • Elaboration using the function of words and structures in language, for example, 了 in the sentence 我早上看见了两只猫。 indicates the completion of an action in the past
• • Elaboration understanding that there are different applications of grammatical rules in spoken and written language, for example, 这碗面太好吃了！这碗面非常美味！
• • Elaboration exploring ways to express similarities or comparatives, using 和 ... 一样, ... 比 ... 更 ..., ... 比较 ..., ... 最 …