AC9LG6U03 Years 5 to 6 Languages

Content descriptor compare some German language structures and features with those of English, using some familiar metalanguage

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• • Elaboration discovering some English words used by German speakers, such as das Internet, die App, Stopp! Sorry!, and considering if they are the same kinds of words as those borrowed from German by English speakers
• • Elaboration identifying the context, purpose and intended audience of a range of familiar German and English texts, for example, fairytales, sports reports or recipes, noticing similarities and differences
• • Elaboration reading, viewing and/or listening to different digital and other texts with a common topic, and discussing structural and linguistic similarities and differences, for example, comparing a print, radio, television and social media announcement for the same event
• • Elaboration building metalanguage to comment on grammar and vocabulary, for example, Substantive/Nomen, Verben, Ordinalzahlen, Präpositionen, Fragewörter, groβ/klein schreiben, comparing with equivalent English terms
• • Elaboration understanding the concept of regular and irregular verbs and noticing that this is a feature of both German and English, for example, sein/ich bin, du bist and to be/I am, you are
• • Elaboration comparing the meaning of the modal verbs müssen, sollen, mögen and können with English equivalents
• • Elaboration comparing the German and Australian ways of writing a postal address, for example, in German the Hausnummer appears after the street name and the Postleitzahl appears before the suburb/town

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• • Elaboration providing feedback to support peers, using metalanguage, for example, editing each other’s written or spoken texts and justifying reasons for editing or changing text