AC9LMGF02 Foundation Languages

This Content Descriptor from Foundation 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 mimicking the sounds and rhythms of Greek and noticing differences/similarities to own language(s)
• 3 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
• 4

  noticing that vowel sounds can be represented in more than one way, for example Οο and Ωω

• 5

  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

• 6

  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

• 7

  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

• 8

  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

• 9 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
• 10

  noticing words that have similar pronunciation in Greek and English, for example, μπανάνα, μαμά, καφέ, βάζο

• 11

  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

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