AC9LMG6U03 Year 5 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

compare some Greek language structures and features with those of English, using some familiar metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1

  comparing familiar texts in Greek and English, and noticing similarities and differences between language structures and features, such as opening sentences, Once upon a time, Μια φορά και έναν καιρό

• 2 recognising Greek morphemes – prefixes, suffixes and base words – in English, to help work out meanings of unknown words, for example, anti-, astro-, deca-, geo-, -graph-, hyper-, -ic, -itis, kilo-, macro-, mega-, -meter, micro-, neo-, octo-, -ology, pent-, photo-, -poly-, -scope, tech-, tele-, tri-
• 3 understanding that some words derived from Ancient Greek are still being used today to create new words (neologisms) such as names of new technological/scientific discoveries, for example, disc, giga-, mega-, metro
• 4

  identifying familiar words in Greek and recognising their English equivalents, for example, το τηλέφωνο, η φωτογραφία, ο παιδίατρος, το δράμα, το θέατρο

• 5

  recognising that some English words are used in Greek, but that Greek equivalents to these terms often also exist, for example, το κομπιούτερ – ο υπολογιστής, μπλε – γαλάζιο, το μπάσκετ – η καλαθόσφαιρα

• 6

  expanding their understanding and use of metalanguage to discuss parts of speech, syntax and punctuation in Greek and/or English, for example, τελεία, ορθογραφία, ρήμα, adverbs, syntax, cognates, subject+verb+object

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