AC9LJ2U03 Year 1 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 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.

notice that Japanese has features that may be similar to or different from English

Elaborations

• 1 recognising and naming the 3 Japanese scripts and understanding that English uses an alphabet that has different rules for writing and pronunciation
• 2 recognising that Japanese uses many loan words from English and other languages, such as ケーキ、テレビ、ピンク, and that these are written in katakana and pronounced differently in Japanese
• 3 comparing basic sentence word order and writing or saying English sentences with sentence word order in Japanese, for example, ‘The dog brown is’ or ‘I soccer play’
• 4 reading familiar texts in Japanese and comparing text structure and language differences, for example, 'Once upon a time' versus むかしむかし, noting the presentation of texts, writing orientations, page progression and use of rhyme
• 5 brainstorming Japanese words that they may use or hear (tofu, manga, anime, emoji, tsunami, karaoke, etc.), and comparing pronunciation, and, with support, making a class poster using words in kana

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