AC9LG4C03 Years 3 to 4 Languages

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

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• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration constructing a timeline of the main events of a story using pictures, words and/or simple sentences
• • Elaboration 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.
• • Elaboration learning that First Nations Australian languages change according to connections and relationships between people, and giving examples of how this occurs in German
• • Elaboration 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.
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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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• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration working with information to create a graph, for example, Lieblingstiere, Lieblingssport, Lieblingsserie, Lieblingsmusik