AC9LIT4U01 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.

recognise and use modelled combinations of sounds, pronunciation and intonation patterns of Italian to form words and phrases

Elaborations

• 1 recognising that there is the standard language called ‘Italian’ as well as many dialects spoken throughout Italy and language variations spoken in Italian-speaking communities around the world
• 2

  developing pronunciation between sound blends in Italian in comparison with English, for example, ‘sc’ followed by ‘h’ or i/e’ - schiavo, piscine, pesce

• 3

  recognising that sound blends can affect meaning, for example, scarpa/sciarpa

• 4

  recognising letter combinations such as gn in lavagna and gnocchi, and gl in figlio and famiglia

• 5

  recognising the silent ‘h’ as applicable to the conjugation of the verb avere in the present and for borrowed words such as hockey and hotel

• 6 noticing the differences in intonation between statements, questions, exclamations and commands
• 7

  understanding that an accent means that you stress that letter and may change the meaning of the word, for example,  è and  e, il papà, il Papa

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