AC9LCH8U01
Years 7 to 8
Languages
AC9LCH8U01 | Years 7 to 8 Chinese: Understanding language and culture
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor use tone-syllables and apply intonation, stress and phrasing to develop fluency, and respond to and create texts in a range of contexts
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 7 to 8 Chinese · Background language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration listening to short interactions between unfamiliar voices at diverse speeds or levels of clarity, to develop auditory and comprehension skills
- • Elaboration developing tone discrimination and identifying subtle differences in pronunciation, including variations in regional accents, for example, distinguishing between qing and qin, lou and rou, liang and lan, shi and si, and lan and nan, fu and hu when listening to interactions
- • Elaboration differentiating pronunciation changes with 多音字, for example, 两行字, 自行车
- • Elaboration comparing their own Chinese speech patterns with Chinese pronunciation, and making adjustments to their pronunciation, intonation, stress and fluency
- • Elaboration practising ways in which tone varies according to setting and context, for example, saying the same sentence in different tones to change the meaning, such as being friendly/unfriendly, respectful/ironic and sincere/sarcastic
- • Elaboration noticing and describing differences in accent when listening to Chinese speakers from diverse regions
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