AC9LIT4U03 Years 3 to 4 Languages

Content descriptor recognise familiar Italian language features and compare with those of English, in known contexts

Elaborations

• • Elaboration noticing how their own language influences expectations about Italian language, for example, seeing word order ‘back to front’, and, for example, realising where adjectives are placed in Italian il pennarello nero = the black marker pen
• • Elaboration noticing some commonalities between particular text types in Italian and English, for example, discovering that greeting cards in both English and Italian have a front cover with images or photos specific to the occasion, an opening and closing address, and a written message
• • Elaboration noticing that Italian, unlike English, uses cardinal numbers for dates except for the first of the month, for example, il 23 marzo, il primo giugno
• • Elaboration recognising differences in punctuation and capitalisation rules when writing, for example, omitting capitals for days of the week, months of the year and nationalities
• • Elaboration discussing the influence of English words on the Italian language and considering why word borrowing occurs, for example, discovering English words incorporated into Italian il tennis, i jeans, fare lo shopping, l’email and Italian words incorporated into English espresso, bellissimo
• • Elaboration identifying cognates, for example, nouns such as cioccolata, cinema, pera, parco and stazione; adjectives such as intelligente and interessante; and verbs such as arrivare, studiare, telefonare and visitare
• • Elaboration beginning to develop a metalanguage for talking about language