AC9LG6U01 Year 5 Languages

AC9LG6U01 – Year 5 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding systems of language

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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

apply knowledge of combinations of sounds, syllables, pronunciation and intonation patterns to develop fluency and rhythm to known words and phrases

Elaborations

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applying phonic and grammatical knowledge to spell, write and say unfamiliar words containing, for example, ch, j, w and z, and diphthongs such as au, ei, eu and ie
• using phrasing and intonation to link multiple sentences when reading a short text aloud or holding a reciprocal conversation with a partner
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identifying differences in regional accents and dialects to begin understanding language variation across German-speaking communities, for example, the commonalties with other geographically adjacent languages or the pronunciation of ch in different dialects such as the potentially different pronunciations of ch in Technologie and ich
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practising different intonation for statements, questions, exclamations and instructions, for example, Du trinkst Wasser. Du trinkst Wasser? Du trinkst Wasser! Du, trinkst Wasser!
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reciting well-known German tongue twisters, applying knowledge of pronunciation patterns and working on fluency, for example, Zehn Ziegen zogen zehn Zentner Zucker, Acht alte Ameisen

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 5 ASLANGERF10Y56

Year 5 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 6, students initiate and use strategies to maintain interactions in German language that are related to their immediate environment. They use appropriate sound combinations, intonation and rhythm in spoken texts. They collaborate in spoken and written activities that involve the language of planning and problem-solving to share information, ideas and preferences. They use strategies to locate and interpret information and ideas in texts, and demonstrate understanding by responding in German or English, adjusting their response to context, purpose and audience. They create texts, selecting and using a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures to suit context. They sequence information and ideas, and use conventions appropriate to text type. Students apply rules of pronunciation and intonation in spoken German. They apply conventions of spelling and punctuation, and use modelled structures, when creating and responding in German. They compare language structures and features in German and English, using some metalanguage. They show understanding of how some language reflects cultural practices and consider how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.