AC9LIT2U01 Years 1 to 2 Languages

Content descriptor recognise and imitate the sounds and rhythms of Italian

Elaborations

• • Elaboration imitating the pronunciation of the 21 letters of the Italian alphabet
• • Elaboration reproducing Italian sounds and intonation patterns through imitation, and reciting nursery rhymes, tongue twisters and songs
• • Elaboration imitating Italian speech using Italian patterns of intonation, pronunciation and stress, and incorporating appropriate gestures, facial expressions and body language
• • Elaboration practising rolling ‘r’ by reciting rhymes and chants
• • Elaboration comparing vowel sounds in Italian and English
• • Elaboration recognising ‘c’ as in ciao sounds like ‘ch’ in English and that ‘ch’ as in chi sounds like a ‘k’ in English
• • Elaboration observing that words which stress the final letter have an accent on that letter, for example, papà, città

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• • Elaboration noticing syllable patterns in words such as la/sa/gna; pa/ta/ta
• • Elaboration acknowledging that rising intonation denotes a question
• • Elaboration noticing that Italian is a phonetic language and is written as it sounds
• • Elaboration comparing similarities and differences in pronunciation of cognates with English, for example, università, animale, appartamento
• • Elaboration recognising that there are different dialects spoken in Italy and variations of accents in Italian-speaking communities in the diaspora