AC9LJ8EU01 Years 7 to 8 Languages

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

Elaborations

• • Elaboration pronouncing hiragana and katakana sounds, including voiced and unvoiced forms and all combined sounds (contractions and blends)
• • Elaboration recognising that in the copula です, and the verb suffix ます, the 'u' is devoiced in normal speech
• • Elaboration understanding the system of Japanese sound combinations: Japanese has 5 vowels; a vowel can be attached to all consonants except ん, and the basic unit of sound of Japanese is mora
• • Elaboration understanding that the sounds of hiragana and katakana are identical even though the associated scripts are different
• • Elaboration using available combinations of katakana to experiment with the Japanese pronunciation of loan words, for example, レストラン 、マクドナルド
• • Elaboration becoming familiar with the rhythm of Japanese, recognising the concept of the ‘foot’ フット as the minimum unit of rhythm, and that one foot in Japanese consists of 2 moras, for example, ごちそうさま is pronounced as a 3-foot word
• • Elaboration recognising the relationship between stress, pacing and meaning, and using appropriate intonation patterns for familiar language to exclaim, make statements or ask questions, for example, demonstrating fluency in reading a text aloud

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• • Elaboration applying knowledge of the sounds of Japanese by using a keyboard with romaji input to type modelled sentences and short paragraphs selecting hiragana, katakana or kanji appropriate to context