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AC9LH4U03: Year 3 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LH4U03 Year 3 Languages

AC9LH4U03 – 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 familiar Hindi language features and compare with those of English, in known contexts

Elaborations

  • • noticing that Hindi uses more vowels and consonants than English, allowing words to be spelled phonetically
  • • discussing the subject+object+verb sentence arrangement in Hindi compared with English subject+verb+object
  • • recognising features of familiar genres of Hindi texts such as digital books or puppet shows, video clips or children’s songs and comparing these with similar texts in English
  • • recognising differences in spoken and written forms of everyday texts, such as greetings or wishes, for example, आपको बहुत-बहुत बधाई हो (spoken) and हार्दिक शुभकामनाएँ (written), comparing with similar differences between spoken and written texts in English
  • • understanding the influence of different languages on Hindi, over different times, for example, the use of English and Perso-Arabic words, such as ‘पोस्ट-बॉक्स ’, ‘रेल्वे स्टेशन’,‘बस ’, ‘स्कूल’, ‘शुक्रिया’, ‘खूबसूरत’, and expressions, for example, तुम इतना लेट कैसे हो गए? क्या यह आपका फ़ाइनल उत्तर है?
  • • identifying examples of Hindi words or expressions that are commonly used in English, such as ‘verandah’ from बरामदा, ‘karma’ from कर्म, and ‘asana’ from आसन
  • • recognising that punctuation in English is the same as in Hindi, apart from the use of capital letters and a different symbol for a full stop पूर्ण विराम ( I )
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  • • learning about Hindi and English metalanguage to describe and talk about language, for example, क्रिया – verb, संज्ञा – noun, विशेषण – adjective, or highlighting parts of speech in a sentence with different colours

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 3 ASLANHINF10Y34
Year 3 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 4, students use Hindi language to initiate structured interactions to share information related to the classroom and their personal worlds. They use modelled language to participate in spoken and written activities that involve planning. They locate and respond to key items of information in texts, using strategies to help interpret and convey meaning in familiar contexts. They use modelled language and basic syntax to create texts, using Devanāgarī script as appropriate. Students imitate sound combinations and rhythms of spoken Hindi. They demonstrate understanding that Hindi has non-verbal, spoken and written language conventions and rules to create and make meaning. They recognise that some terms have cultural meanings. They identify patterns in Hindi and make comparisons between Hindi and English. They understand that the Hindi language is connected with culture, and identify how this is reflected in their own language(s) and culture(s).