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AC9LIN2U01 Years 1 to 2 Languages

AC9LIN2U01 | Years 1 to 2 Indonesian: Understanding systems of language

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor recognise and imitate the sounds and rhythms of Indonesian

Foundation to Year 10 sequence

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 1 to 2 Indonesian · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration imitating Indonesian pronunciation, for example, vowels, trilled r, c (ch) and the unaspirated sounds p, t and k especially at the end of a word, for example, empat, nenek
  • • Elaboration noticing that Indonesian has pure vowel sounds and each vowel sound is represented by one letter
  • • Elaboration noticing that the vowel e has 3 different pronunciations – enam, sate, enak
  • • Elaboration recognising diphthongs for example, au in mau; ai in main
  • • Elaboration clapping the rhythm of syllables to notice even word stress
  • • Elaboration noticing that statements, commands and questions have different intonations
  • • Elaboration experimenting with sounds and emphasis such as onomatopoeic words related to animal or human sounds, for example, kwek-kwek (quack, quack), cit-cit (tweet, tweet), gong-gong (woof, woof), hacciihh (achoo) and kring-kring (ding, ding)

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