AC9LGF02 Foundation Languages

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.

explore, with support, language features of German noticing similarities and differences between German and English

Elaborations

• 1 singing alphabet songs and noticing similarities and differences between the use of the Roman alphabet in German and English
• 2

  singing popular children’s songs in German and comparing them with the English versions, for example, singing Funkel, funkel, kleiner Stern and comparing with English, asking, “Which word do you think might mean ‘twinkle, twinkle’?”

• 3

  rehearsing familiar onomatopoeia for a performance, for example, animal sounds Das Schaf macht mäh mäh, die Katze macht miau, miau

• 4

  reproducing the sounds and rhythms of German rhymes and songs by reciting, singing and imitating, for example, Alle meine Entchen

• 5 tracing simple words in both German and English, noticing similarities and differences

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