AC9LGF03 Foundation Languages

Content descriptor explore connections between language and culture

Elaborations

• • Elaboration exploring different languages and cultures of class members and identifying different ways of expressing common terms such as yes/no, hello/goodbye
• • Elaboration sharing with the class words and phrases they know in other languages and cultures
• • Elaboration engaging with traditions, customs, costumes, food, etc. in German-speaking communities, for example, receiving a Schultüte when starting school, decorating a classroom with a Osterzweig/Osterbaum or participating in a class Laternenumzug, making a mask and participating in a school assembly for Karneval/Fastnacht/Fasching
• • Elaboration using the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) map of the languages of Australia to notice the language(s) of First Nations Australians in their local area and/or across Australia
• • Elaboration noticing how local names of streets, places and landmarks can have their origins in language(s) of First Nations Australians or sometimes a connection to German heritage
• • Elaboration locating German-speaking countries and countries/places of significance to students in the class on a digital or print world map