AC9LG6U01 Year 5 Languages

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.

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

Elaborations

• 1

  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

• 2 using phrasing and intonation to link multiple sentences when reading a short text aloud or holding a reciprocal conversation with a partner
• 3

  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

• 4

  practising different intonation for statements, questions, exclamations and instructions, for example, Du trinkst Wasser. Du trinkst Wasser? Du trinkst Wasser! Du, trinkst Wasser!

• 5

  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

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