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AC9LIT2U01: Year 1 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LIT2U01 Year 1 Languages

AC9LIT2U01 – Year 1 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
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.

Content Descriptor

recognise and imitate the sounds and rhythms of Italian

Elaborations

  • • imitating the pronunciation of the 21 letters of the Italian alphabet
  • • reproducing Italian sounds and intonation patterns through imitation, and reciting nursery rhymes, tongue twisters and songs
  • • imitating Italian speech using Italian patterns of intonation, pronunciation and stress, and incorporating appropriate gestures, facial expressions and body language
  • • practising rolling ‘r’ by reciting rhymes and chants
  • • comparing vowel sounds in Italian and English
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    recognising ‘c’ as in ciao sounds like ‘ch’ in English and that ‘ch’ as in chi sounds like a ‘k’ in English

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    observing that words which stress the final letter have an accent on that letter, for example, papà, città

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    noticing syllable patterns in words such as la/sa/gna; pa/ta/ta

  • • acknowledging that rising intonation denotes a question
  • • noticing that Italian is a phonetic language and is written as it sounds
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    comparing similarities and differences in pronunciation of cognates with English, for example, università, animale, appartamento

  • • recognising that there are different dialects spoken in Italy and variations of accents in Italian-speaking communities in the diaspora

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 1 ASLANITAF10Y12
Year 1 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 2, students use Italian language to interact and share information related to the classroom and themselves. They use cues to respond to questions and instructions, and use simple formulaic language. They locate and convey key items of information in texts using non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They use familiar words and modelled language to create texts.Students imitate the sounds and rhythms of Italian and demonstrate understanding that Italian has conventions and rules for non-verbal communication, pronunciation and writing. They give examples of similarities and differences between some features of Italian and English. They understand that language is connected with culture, and notice how this is reflected in their own language(s) and culture(s).