AC9LIT6U03 Year 5 Languages

AC9LIT6U03 – Year 5 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding systems of language

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

Content Descriptor

compare some Italian language structures and features with those of English, using some familiar metalanguage

Elaborations

• talking about grammar, using terms such as ‘tense’ and ‘personal pronoun’, identifying language elements, and using metalanguage to discuss how they are used
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applying intercultural awareness when using metalanguage to explain to others learnt words and expressions, for example, applying practices relating to hospitality S’accomodi! Grazie per l’invito … Volentieri! Certo! Come no!
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explaining in English the meaning of culturally significant phrases and concepts encountered in everyday interactions and in signs such as È vietato calpestare l’erba, È vietato attraversare i binari.
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interpreting the meaning of particular word choices and gestures made in conversations between speakers of Italian, for example, explaining the use of idioms such as Diamoci del tu! Dai! Via! Evviva! Non vedo l’ora!
• discussing the differences in register when using language in different contexts, for example, when giving an oral presentation to the class, talking to friends in the schoolyard, going shopping or visiting the doctor
• developing metalanguage to describe patterns, grammatical rules and variations in language structure

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 5 ASLANITAF10Y56

Year 5 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 6, students initiate and use strategies to maintain interactions in Italian language that are related to their immediate environment. They use appropriate sound combinations, intonation, and rhythm in spoken texts. They collaborate in spoken and written activities that involve the language of planning and problem-solving to share information, ideas and preferences. They use strategies to locate and interpret information and ideas in texts, and demonstrate understanding by responding in Italian or English, adjusting their response to context, purpose and audience. They create texts, selecting and using a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures to suit context. They sequence information and ideas, and use conventions appropriate to text type.Students apply rules for pronunciation and intonation, spelling and punctuation, and modelled structures, when creating and responding in Italian. They compare language structures and features in Italian and English, using some metalanguage. They show understanding of how some language reflects cultural practices and consider how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.