AC9LHF02 Foundation Languages

This Content Descriptor from Foundation 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.

explore, with support, language features of Hindi noticing similarities and differences between Hindi and English

Elaborations

• 1 observing that Hindi uses the Devanāgarī script for writing that looks very different from English and has more letters than English
• 2

  tracing Hindi letters, or creating letter artwork using tactile materials such as chalk, pipe cleaners, pebbles, noodles, using the Hindi Varnmala chart as a visual support tool

• 3 engaging with mnemonic devices to recall the appearance and sound of letters, associating images or clues with written script and sounds
• 4 experimenting with Hindi sounds and pronunciation through rhyming, singing, imitating, using instruments, music, movement and sound-letter matching games
• 5 participating in group reading of familiar stories or sensory books read in Hindi, repeating key words and simple descriptions such as नहीं-नहीं, कभी नहीं। मैं यहाँ हूँ!
• 6 playing outside using Hindi nature vocabulary to interact, play eye spy or make letters and pictures on the ground with leaves, sand or rocks
• 7 making connections with words of Hindi origin used in Australian English, for example, yoga, bangle, shampoo
• 8 listening to and using onomatopoeia such as sounds of animals and of objects, for example, भौं–भौं–bhon-bhon (woof-woof), मैं–मैं-mein-mein (baa-baa), म्याऊँ–म्याऊँ-meow-meow (meow-meow), and comparing these with sounds in English and other languages represented in the class
• 9 using a combination of English and Hindi in the classroom and noticing different ways that the teacher and peers may say some greetings, words or phrases, for example, सुप्रभात (good morning), जन्मदिन की बधाई (happy birthday), पानी (water), खाना (food)

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