AC9LH2U01 Year 1 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 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 imitate the sounds and rhythms of Hindi, and how sounds are represented in Devanāgarī script

Elaborations

• 1 learning how the Hindi sound system is conventionally represented in the Devanāgarī system by the use of 13 letters classified as vowels (अ-अः) and 33 consonants (क-ह and ड़-ढ़)
• 2 recognising and reproducing the sounds of the 45 Hindi letters according to pronunciation
• 3

  developing pronunciation through singing, reciting and mimicking alphabetic elements in context, using the Hindi Varnamala chart for support

• 4 building phonic awareness by recognising and experimenting with sounds and focusing on those that are new and challenging, such as त, थ, ग, घ, ट, द, ध।
• 5 understanding that Hindi letters are pronounced in the same way that they are written
• 6 noticing how intonation and tone may change the meaning or intent of some words and expressions, for example, अच्छा, रुक
• 7 understanding how vowels are pronounced without any obstruction of air coming out of the mouth and consonants are pronounced with obstruction of air by different parts of the mouth
• 8 recognising the matra form of vowels, such as ि, ी, and distinguishing long and short vowel sounds, such as इ and ई
• 9 identifying and practising pronunciation of vowel sounds with consonants, for example, क+इ/कि, क+ई/की

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