AC9LG8EU01 Year 7 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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.

recognise and use features of the German sound system, including pitch, rhythm, stress, pronunciation and intonation, and demonstrate understanding of how these are represented in familiar contexts

Elaborations

• 1

  practising pronunciation of particular sounds, rhythms and intonation patterns, for example, saying tongue twisters, rhymes and short poems such as Fischers Fritze fischt frische Fische, Acht alte Ameisen, Klein aber fein! Eins, zwei, Polizei

• 2

  identifying differences in intonation and rhythm between statements, questions, interjections and commands, for example, Du trinkst Wasser. Du trinkst Wasser? Du trinkst Wasser! Du, trink Wasser!

• 3

  comparing pronunciation and variation in some letters, for example, singing das Alphabetlied, and using the alphabet to spell German names and other words

• 4 understanding that pronunciation may vary across different German-speaking communities and dialects
• 5

  recognising that loan words in German may differ in pronunciation or follow pronunciation patterns for other languages, for example, Handy, orange, Friseur, Restaurant

• 6

  developing an awareness of letter–sound relationships, including distinctive sounds such as those represented by the letters ch, r, th, u and z and consonant blends and clusters such as sch

• 7

  comparing and applying German sounds, such as short and long vowel sounds, and diphthongs, such as au, ei, eu and ie, and the impact of the Umlaut on a, o and u, and the double ss sound for ß

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