AC9LMG2U01 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.

recognise and imitate the sounds and rhythms of Greek and learn how sounds are produced, and represented in the Modern Greek alphabet

Elaborations

• 1

  building phonic awareness by pronouncing, copying and writing alphabet letters with familiar sounds, for example, Οο, Ιι, Εε, Αα, Κκ, Ττ, Λλ, Ππ, Σσς, Μμ, Νν, Ηη, Υυ, Ωω, Ββ, Ζζ, Φφ, and building to more unfamiliar sounds, for example Γγ, Ρρ, Δδ, Θθ, Ξξ, Ψψ, Χχ

• 2

  recognising that most duplicated consonants in a word sound the same as the single consonants, for example, κόκκινο, Ελλάδα, άλλο, εννέα, ‘Αννα

• 3 imitating the sounds, rhythms, intonation and stress of Greek, using hand gestures and non-verbal cues to assist learning
• 4 locating and highlighting specific alphabet letters and accent marks in names, οr identifying vowels or consonants within words
• 5 developing pronunciation, intonation and pace by singing, reciting and repeating alphabet names, for example, in the alphabet song or when referring to a letter in a word
• 6

  recognising and making simple syllables from consonant–vowel combinations, for example, μα, με, μη, μι, μο, μυ, μω and understanding that syllables can be joined together to make words, such as α-λά-τι and μά-τι

• 7

  identifying and pronouncing the most common digraphs/diphthongs, including μπ as in μπαμπάς and ου as in μου

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