AC9LIT2U01 – 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 the pronunciation of the 21 letters of the Italian alphabet
• 2 reproducing Italian sounds and intonation patterns through imitation, and reciting nursery rhymes, tongue twisters and songs
• 3 imitating Italian speech using Italian patterns of intonation, pronunciation and stress, and incorporating appropriate gestures, facial expressions and body language
• 4 practising rolling ‘r’ by reciting rhymes and chants
• 5 comparing vowel sounds in Italian and English
• 6

  recognising ‘c’ as in ciao sounds like ‘ch’ in English and that ‘ch’ as in chi sounds like a ‘k’ in English

• 7

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

• 8

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

• 9 acknowledging that rising intonation denotes a question
• 10 noticing that Italian is a phonetic language and is written as it sounds
• 11

  comparing similarities and differences in pronunciation of cognates with English, for example, università, animale, appartamento

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

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