AC9LH2U03 Years 1 to 2 Languages

Content descriptor notice that Hindi has features that may be similar to or different from English

Elaborations

• • Elaboration understanding that English uses the Roman alphabet containing 5 vowels and 21 consonants, whereas Hindi uses Devanāgarī script containing 13 vowels and 40 consonants
• • Elaboration noticing differences in word order in Hindi and English sentences such as मुझे आइसक्रीम पसंद है। versus ‘I like ice cream’
• • Elaboration understanding Hindi and English texts as different forms of communication that can be spoken, written, digital or visual, recognising that they can be very short, for example, रुको, or much longer, for example, तुम ज़रा ठहर जाओ।
• • Elaboration recognising that different types of Hindi and English texts may have similar or different features, such as repetition and rhythm in action songs and rhymes, or similar beginnings to stories, for example, एक समय की बात है ... and ‘Once upon a time’
• • Elaboration identifying English loan words and expressions used in Hindi, understanding that they may be pronounced slightly differently, for example, phone is pronounced as फ़ोन and dollar as डालर
• • Elaboration noticing some examples of Hindi words that are used in English, for example, योग – yoga, साड़ी ¬– sari, खाकी – khaki, पायजामा – pyjama
• • Elaboration noticing similarities and differences in Hindi and English punctuation such as full stops

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• • Elaboration using some simple metalanguage to talk about Hindi and English language structures such as sentence, word, script, spelling and full stop