AC9LIT2U03 Year 1 Languages

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.

notice that Italian has features that may be similar to or different from English

Elaborations

• 1

  noticing that Italian words end mostly with vowels which mark gender and number, for example, o–i (masculine singular and plural); a–e (feminine singular and plural); e–i (masculine/feminine, singular and plural)

• 2

  observing gender in patterns of naming, for example, Paolo/Paola, Alessandro/Alessandra

• 3

  noticing that Italian has definite and indefinite articles that are gender based, for example, la casa, una casa; il giardino, un giardino; lo zoo, uno zoo

• 4 noticing that Italian forms singular and plural differently from English
• 5

  noticing some words for asking questions, for example, Chi? Cosa? Quando? are similar to English and do not change, and some change to denote number and gender, for example, Quanti?

• 6 noticing that rising intonation denotes a question

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