AC9LJ4U02 Years 3 to 4 Languages

Content descriptor recognise Japanese language conventions, some kana and kanji rules, simple grammatical structures and basic syntax in familiar texts and contexts

Elaborations

• • Elaboration recognising and using the rules of simple Japanese word order (subject+object+verb/copula) with support
• • Elaboration developing understanding of present tense ます form with particles を and に, for example, ぶどうをたべます、がっこうにいきます, and beginning to use in texts
• • Elaboration describing people, animals, places and things using adjectives or adjective-noun phrases, for example, おいしいです、おいしいもも
• • Elaboration understanding that there is a stroke order and that there are rules for kana and kanji, and practising numbering strokes in order when writing characters
• • Elaboration recognising the function of, and using some particles in sentences, for example, は after the subject, の to indicate ownership, か for questions and が in formulaic expressions such as がすきです
• • Elaboration recognising some Japanese writing conventions and different ways of presenting texts, for example, observing layout, direction, the use of squared paper and punctuation, たてがき, よこがき
• • Elaboration recognising and using basic counters in Japanese for different purposes such as expressing quantity and time, for example, ～人、～才、～月、～じ、はん and counting from 1–100

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• • Elaboration seeking information using question words within modelled sentence structures, なに、なん、いつ、どこ and だれ and the sentence-ending particle か, for example, なにがすきですか。なん才ですか。なん人ですか。いつですか。
• • Elaboration noticing the systematic and logical nature of Japanese grammar, writing and the kana charts, and using this knowledge to support learning
• • Elaboration developing metalanguage for communicating about language through the use of correct terminology for parts of speech (noun, verb and adjective)