AC9LIT8EU01 Years 7 to 8 Languages

Content descriptor recognise and use features of the Italian sound system, including pitch, rhythm, stress, pronunciation and intonation, and demonstrate understanding of how these are represented in familiar contexts

Elaborations

• • Elaboration recognising that Standard Italian is used in Italy and in diverse communities throughout the world, and that many speakers of Italian may also speak a regional and/or local dialect
• • Elaboration examining differences in pronunciation of consonant and vowel combinations, double consonants, stress and accents, and applying to their own work, for example, famiglie, gnocchi, chiese, barche, chiavi, buono, cena, azione; sono and sonno, vale and valle; felicità, capacità, papa and pappa, casa and cassa, nono and nonno
• • Elaboration imitating the sound combinations of Italian, for example, consonant combinations ‘ce’, ‘ci’, ‘co’, ‘cu’, ‘ca’, ‘chi’, ‘che’, ‘gi’, ‘ge’, ‘go’, ‘gu’, ‘ghi’, ‘ghe’, ‘sci’, ‘sce’, ‘schi’, ‘sche’
• • Elaboration recognising the differences in tone and rhythm between statements, questions, exclamations and commands when speaking, interacting and expressing emotion, for example, Vai a casa? Va’ a casa! Oh! E? Ahimè!
• • Elaboration making connections between spoken and written forms, and understanding the effect of grave and acute accent marks on pronunciation and meaning, for example, papa/papà; città, perché, cioè
• • Elaboration recognising and understanding the role of pause fillers and using them to assist the flow of conversation, for example, beginning to use Insomma; Allora; Dunque; Vediamo ... when appropriate
• • Elaboration checking pronunciation of words using sound files and text-to-speech software