AC9LH4C03 – Year 3 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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

• • accessing authentic, simple print or digital text such as advertisements, catalogues, menus and packaging, to locate key points of information such as product, number, price, target audience or suitability to recycle
• • listening to short spoken texts that contain some unfamiliar language, such as announcements or directions for a game or to a place, identifying specific points of information to obtain gist
• • listening to a factual report such as a weather forecast and writing a message to a friend inviting them to go out, and incorporating information from the stimulus text, for example, शनिवार को धूप निकलेगी, हम तट पर जा सकते हैं
• • learning that First Nations Australian languages change according to connections and relationships between people, and giving examples of how this occurs in Hindi
• • researching information about Indian regions, such as language, culture, dress, food and animal species, and recording key facts to present in an informative text, for example, चेन्नई में तमिल बोली जाती है, कश्मीर में आप शिकारे में घूम सकते हैं; तांत कपड़ा कोलकाता में बनता है
• • listening to or reading popular stories, and re-enacting scenes or adapting the text using modelled language such as an alternative ending or new character, for example, लकड़हारा और कुल्हाड़ी, अकबर और बीरबल, तेनालीराम
• • comparing information related to aspects of school life in India and Australia such as timetables, lunch break, extracurricular activities or sports, for example, the ‘midday meals’ scheme in India compared to school canteen meals in Australia

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: