AC9LH4U01
Year 3
Languages
AC9LH4U01 – Year 3 Languages: Understanding systems of language
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language
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.
Content Descriptor
recognise and use modelled combinations of sounds, pronunciation and intonation patterns of Hindi to form words and phrases
Elaborations
- • pronouncing the sounds of the 45 Hindi letters and applying this knowledge to words and sentences
- • imitating the discrimination of aspirated and unaspirated sounds, for example, क-ख, द-ध।
- • recording themselves reading short texts aloud to practise sounds, stress and intonation, and predicting pronunciation by sounding out words based on phonetic knowledge
- • understanding that Hindi vowels can be pronounced with a nasal quality which is represented by either a चंद्रबिंदु or a small dot (बिंदु) above the headstroke, for example, हाँ, मैं
- • understanding that the sound and letter correspondence is the same in written and spoken Hindi, that there are no silent letters and there is only one sound for each letter
- • recognising how to distinguish between nasal vowel sounds and nasal consonants, and the rules that govern how to represent nasal consonant combinations in words such as गंगा/गङ्गा, पंजाब/पञ्जाब, ठंड/ठण्ड, बंद/बन्द and तुम्हारा
- • recognising that there are loan words in Hindi from languages such as English, Persian, Arabic, Turkish and Portuguese, and learning how the under dotted characters क़, ख़, ग़, ज़, फ़ are used to represent such loan sounds
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- • identifying long and short matra forms of vowels in words, for example, मछली-तितली, तरबूज, चुहिया, सैनिक
- • recognising how pitch, stress and rhythm help to convey meaning even when individual words are unfamiliar, for example रुको