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AC9LGF01: Foundation Languages Content Descriptor – Communicating meaning in target language
AC9LGF01 Foundation Languages

AC9LGF01 – Foundation Languages: null

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Communicating meaning in target language
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Communicating meaning in target language

This Content Descriptor from Foundation 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

with support, recognise and communicate meaning in German

Elaborations

  • greeting others using appropriate forms of address, for example, Guten Morgen Frau Schulz, Tag Hannah, Wie geht’s?, Wie heißt du?, and using body language such as eye contact and shaking hands

  • participating in routine exchanges such as responding to the class roll, expressing thanks, greeting and taking leave, and describing the day’s weather, for example, Danke schön, Auf Wiedersehen, Tschüss, Es ist heiß/kalt/sonnig/windig

  • participating in songs and chants by singing and performing actions, for example, Brüderchen, komm tanz mit mir

  • responding to classroom instructions, for example, Melde dich!, Ruhe bitte, Komm nach vorne!, Mach die Tür bitte zu!

  • responding to German language texts such as stories, rhymes and songs through play-acting or movement, illustrating characters, events or scenes
  • using numbers 0–10, for example, sorting counters into groups, counting aloud and tracing numbers on paper, in the air or in sand
  • participating in simple dialogues through play-acting (playing shops using classroom objects such as toys and books), practising a greeting and simple phrases, for example, Guten Tag, Das bitte (and pointing to the object), Danke schön