AC9LIT4C04 Year 3 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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.

develop strategies to comprehend and adjust Italian language in familiar contexts to convey cultural meaning

Elaborations

• 1 listening to, reading and viewing sentences and paragraphs in their entirety to predict meaning of unknown words and expressions
• 2 learning to use print and digital dictionaries to find unknown words in texts to assist comprehension
• 3

  collecting and using Italian words and expressions that do not translate easily into English, for example, Buon appetito! Altrettanto!

• 4 compiling a glossary or word bank of common Italian expressions and idioms that convey Italian cultural practices
• 5 creating a word bank of commonly used words, phrases or sentences, for example, questions, idiomatic expressions, responses, and devising simple activities that involve alternating or combining repeated words or phrases in Italian and English
• 6

  experiencing different types of children’s texts, for example, Lo Zecchino d’Oro, video clips on Suonolandia appreciating the elements of humour and drama, use of sound effects, and facial expressions; and responding to the characters and events depicted in the texts, for example, È strano, È buffo. La storia parla di …, La canzone parla di ...

• 7 using multimodal resources to build vocabulary to describe actions or feelings, by accessing and presenting information of interest

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