AC9LG6U03 Year 5 Languages

AC9LG6U03 – 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

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

Elaborations

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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
• 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
• 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
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building metalanguage to comment on grammar and vocabulary, for example, Substantive/Nomen, Verben, Ordinalzahlen, Präpositionen, Fragewörter, groβ/klein schreiben, comparing with equivalent English terms
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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
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comparing the meaning of the modal verbs müssen, sollen, mögen and können with English equivalents
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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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• 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

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.