AC9LRF2C01 – Year 1 Languages: Interacting in [Language]

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.

Elaborations

• • introducing and describing self, family, friends, pets, and totems where appropriate, using familiar and modelled language supported by visual props such as drawings and photos, for example, creating self-profiles with a family tree
• • participating in everyday exchanges, such as greeting and interacting with the teaching team and using appropriate behaviours, silences and forms of address to show respect to visiting Elders and/or community members
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  listening to questions such as what, who, where questions about self, family, friends and the immediate environment, and responding with words and actions including gestures

• • participating in routine classroom or on Country/Place exchanges, such as responding to the class roll, asking and answering questions, making requests and beginning to express opinions appropriately
• • using language and/or gestures to express gratitude, appreciation or equivalent as appropriate in [Language]
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  using some spontaneous expressions with peers such as But why?, Oh no! or equivalent as appropriate in [Language]

• • developing words and phrases for talking about being on Country/Place or at school

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: