AC9LG4C03 Year 3 Languages

AC9LG4C03 – Year 3 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in German

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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.

Content Descriptor

locate and respond to key information related to familiar content obtained from spoken, written and multimodal texts

Elaborations

• identifying points of information in short spoken texts with some unfamiliar language, for example, the name and number on a recorded phone message, the age of a child interviewed, some items on a recorded shopping list
• constructing a timeline of the main events of a story using pictures, words and/or simple sentences
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responding to an informative or imaginative text in various ways, such as describing what emotions they feel listening to a story or song, for example, Das macht mich glücklich/traurig/nervös.
• learning that First Nations Australian languages change according to connections and relationships between people, and giving examples of how this occurs in German
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collecting information from informative texts and creating a display with names and appropriate adjectives, for example, about different animal species, Der Löwe ist mutig und stark, Das Känguru ist schnell.
• viewing or listening to texts related to aspects of school life, such as timetables, canteen menus, extracurricular activities and sports, and comparing information about activities and practices across cultures
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locating information about a person or character from a written or spoken text, to use in a modelled format such as a Steckbrief

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• working in groups to obtain and use factual information from texts related to other learning areas, for example, completing a simple science experiment, naming countries and significant land features, or calculating distances/speeds from a sport lesson
• finding examples of German used at home or in the community and creating a class collection or display, for example, products, labels or words used in English language advertisements, shop signs, recipe books or menus
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working with information to create a graph, for example, Lieblingstiere, Lieblingssport, Lieblingsserie, Lieblingsmusik

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 3 ASLANGERF10Y34

Year 3 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 4, students use German language to initiate structured interactions to share information related to the classroom and their personal worlds. They use modelled language to participate in spoken and written activities that involve planning. They locate and respond to key items of information in texts using strategies to help interpret and convey meaning in familiar contexts. They use modelled language and basic syntax to create texts. Students imitate sound combinations and rhythms of spoken German. They demonstrate understanding that German has non-verbal, spoken and written language conventions and rules to create and make meaning. They recognise that some terms have cultural meanings. They identify patterns in German and make comparisons between German and English. They understand that the German language is connected with culture, and identify how this is reflected in their own language(s) and culture(s).