AC9LH4U02
Year 3
Languages
AC9LH4U02 – 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 Hindi language and some script conventions, grammatical structures and basic syntax in familiar texts and contexts
Elaborations
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reading and writing Devanāgarī script with the Hindi Varnmala chart as support, and using some basic punctuation such as capital letters, commas and full stops
- • applying a horizontal line on top of words and appropriate spacing between words
- • using nouns related to home, school and local environments, for example, forms of transport मोटरकार, रेलगाड़ी, food items चावल, रोटी, दाल and classroom objects कुर्सी, मेज़, पेंसिल
- • selecting appropriate pronouns for people, places and objects, for example, मेरा, तुम्हारा, यहाँ, वहाँ, यह, वह
- • describing actions using familiar verbs, such as गाना, खाना, खेलना, दौड़ना and changing verb forms according to gender, number and tense, for example, लड़का जाता है। लड़की जाती है। लड़के जाते हैं। लड़का गया था। लड़का जाएगा।
- • using and responding to imperative verb forms such as बैठ जाओ, यहाँ आओ, मेरी बात सुनो।
- • using adjectives to describe characteristics or qualities of a person or object, such as shape, number and colour, and noticing that they change with gender and number, for example, छोटा लड़का, छोटी लड़की, छोटे लड़के, पाँच रोटियाँ, दस गिलास, मेरी पुस्तक, तुम्हारा बस्ता
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- • specifying location or direction using prepositions such as पहले से, अंदर, बाहर, वह बाहर से आया है।
- • using interrogatives to ask questions and seek further information, for example, कब, क्या, क्यों, कहाँ, कैसे
- • negating simple sentences using words such as नही, ना, इन्कार, मना करना, for example, मुझे नहीं पता, वहाँ मत जा
- • constructing simple sentences with linked ideas using conjunctions such as मेरे पास लाल गाड़ी है और मेरे भाई के पास काली गाड़ी है।
- • using ordinal numbers in context to describe position of objects, for example, पहला, दूसरा, तीसरा
- • recognising differences between typed and handwritten Hindi, and practising reading both forms
- • applying the use of half consonants in written and spoken Hindi, for example, क, क्: पक्का, अच्छा