AC9LIN2U01 – Year 1 Languages: Understanding systems of language

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 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.

Elaborations

• 1

  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

• 2 noticing that Indonesian has pure vowel sounds and each vowel sound is represented by one letter
• 3

  noticing that the vowel e has 3 different pronunciations – enam, sate, enak

• 4

  recognising diphthongs for example, au in mau; ai in main

• 5 clapping the rhythm of syllables to notice even word stress
• 6 noticing that statements, commands and questions have different intonations
• 7

  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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