AC9LG4C04 Year 3 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1

  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

• 2 reading simple translations in German and English, noticing similarities, differences and challenges
• 3

  recognising that there are different and/or multiple words that communicate ideas across cultures, for example, Karneval, Fasching, Fastnacht, das Christkind, der Weihnachtsmann

• 4

  matching parallel expressions such as Hi/Tag, morning tea/Kaffeepause and Bless you/Gesundheit

• 5 using cultural gestures in familiar contexts, for example, counting starting with your thumb
• 6 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

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