AC9LITF02 Foundation Languages

Content descriptor explore, with support, language features of Italian noticing similarities and differences between Italian and English

Elaborations

• • Elaboration observing that written Italian uses the same letters as written English, although Italian has 21 letters while English has 26
• • Elaboration tracing the letters of the alphabet and imitating the sound, for example, tracing and imitating ba be, bi, bo, bu
• • Elaboration participating in alphabet songs, chants, rhymes to imitate Italian pronunciation, intonation and stress, for example, stressing double letters and chanting rhymes
• • Elaboration making connections with Italian words and phrases used in everyday life in Australia, for example, identifying food names such as gelato, spaghetti, pasta, cappuccino, latte
• • Elaboration experimenting with sounds (animal sounds, etc.) used in Italian, for example, using the sounds bau bau (dog), pio pio (chicken), gru gru (pig) and comparing these sounds with animal sounds in English and other languages represented in the class
• • Elaboration identifying cognates between Italian and English, for example, banana, computer
• • Elaboration noticing when Italian or English is being used in the classroom