AC9LMG10U01 Year 9 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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.

apply features and conventions of spoken Greek to extend fluency in responding to and creating texts in familiar and unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

• 1 recognising that pronunciation, rhythm, intonation and tempo help in making meaning in interactions and applying this knowledge to own communication
• 2

  applying accent rules with appropriate pronunciation to familiar and unfamiliar words, for example, τσάι, παίχτης, οικόπεδο

• 3

  applying appropriate pronunciation of ια, ιε, ιο, ιό, ιου with different preceding letters

• 4

  recognising that the sound ‘I’ is represented by the following letters, depending on the context: I, ι, H, η, Y, υ, Eι, ει, Οι, οι

• 5

  recognising the different pronunciation of the digraphs/diphthongs, for example, αυ – αυτοκίνητο and αυλή, ευ – ευχαριστώ and ευγενικός, μπ, ντ, γκ, γγ, τσ, τζ

• 6

  recognising that double letters in Greek, in most cases, have the same sound as single letters, for example, ιππόδρομος, Γιάννηςιππόδρομος, Γιάννης

• 7

  extending phonic awareness by using and experimenting with sounds and rhythms, for example, γέρος, γερός

• 8

  reinforcing pronunciation, phrasing and intonation skills by reciting and repeating difficult/unfamiliar words and/or tongue twisters, for example, Ο τζίτζιρας ο μίτζιρας ο τζιτζιμιτζιχότζιρας, ανέβηκε στη τζιτζιριά στη μιτζιριά στη τζιτζιμιτζιχοτζιριά, να κόψει τζίτζιρα μίτζιρα τζιτζιμιτζιχότζιρα

• 9

  comparing English and Greek sounds and spelling to support pronunciation of familiar and unfamiliar words and expressions, for example, astronaut/αστροναύτης, school/σχολείο, mathematics/μαθηματικά, history/ιστορία, geography/γεωγραφία trigonometry/τριγωνομετρία

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