AC9LGF03 – Foundation Languages: null

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.

Elaborations

• 1 exploring different languages and cultures of class members and identifying different ways of expressing common terms such as yes/no, hello/goodbye
• 2 sharing with the class words and phrases they know in other languages and cultures
• 3

  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

• 4 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
• 5 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
• 6 locating German-speaking countries and countries/places of significance to students in the class on a digital or print world map

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