AC9LG4C04 Year 3 Languages

AC9LG4C04 – 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

develop strategies to comprehend and adjust German language in familiar contexts to convey cultural meaning

Elaborations

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recognising that there are similarities and differences between German and English ways of showing politeness or formality, for example, the use of family names after Frau and Herr, responding to danke schön with bitte schön, using Sie in an appropriate context
• reading simple translations in German and English, noticing similarities, differences and challenges
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recognising that there are different and/or multiple words that communicate ideas across cultures, for example, Karneval, Fasching, Fastnacht, das Christkind, der Weihnachtsmann
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matching parallel expressions such as Hi/Tag, morning tea/Kaffeepause and Bless you/Gesundheit
• using cultural gestures in familiar contexts, for example, counting starting with your thumb
• discovering how their own language use influences expectations about German language use, for example, wanting to use one word for ‘you’, and not expecting to capitalise all nouns

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).