AC9LMGF02 Foundation Languages

Content descriptor explore, with support, language features of Greek noticing similarities and differences between Greek and English

Elaborations

• • Elaboration exploring the Modern Greek alphabet through play-based learning experiences such as alphabet block or flashcard games, circle chants to a beat or rhythm, and songs with movement and actions
• • Elaboration mimicking the sounds and rhythms of Greek and noticing differences/similarities to own language(s)
• • Elaboration tracing, copying or making letters of the Modern Greek alphabet, noticing connections with English, for example, using whiteboards, laminated templates, secure digital applications, chalk on the ground or with tactile materials
• • Elaboration noticing that vowel sounds can be represented in more than one way, for example Οο and Ωω
• • Elaboration listening to and repeating onomatopoeia, for example, using the sounds γαβ (woof), κο κο κο (cluck cluck cluck), νιάου (miaow), μου (moo), and comparing these sounds with animal sounds in English and other languages represented in the class
• • Elaboration observing the position of the tongue and shape of mouth when pronouncing Greek sounds, for example, the trilled r and the 4 single vowel sounds, α, ε, ι, ο, and comparing them with English
• • Elaboration talking about Greek words they may use or have heard, such as kalamata, tzatziki, feta οr haloumi, and English words with Greek origin such as octopus, dinosaur, zoo

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• • Elaboration participating in Greek versions of children’s songs and rhymes, identifying some similarities and differences compared with English versions, for example, key words or a tune such as Το δαχτυλίδι, Ένα, δύο, τρία κουνελάκια, Πέντε παπάκια, Η μικρή αράχνη
• • Elaboration writing their names in Greek, English or other known languages and making comparisons regarding number of letters, shape of letters and similar sounds, using some basic terms such as letters, words, capital letters
• • Elaboration noticing words that have similar pronunciation in Greek and English, for example, μπανάνα, μαμά, καφέ, βάζο
• • Elaboration identifying target letters in words, through games and activities, for example, locating all the β in a particular word or phrase, calling out Το βρήκα or Βρήκα δύο when they locate them