AC9LRF6U02 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.

use knowledge of modelled grammatical structures and formulaic expressions to compose and respond to texts

Elaborations

• 1 understanding that rules vary between languages, including word formation and word order
• 2 changing tenses of verbs by adding a suffix to a base verb if appropriate in [Language] and completing an information-gap activity
• 3 using imperatives that are formed by the addition of a suffix to a base verb and completing a table if appropriate in [Language]
• 4 constructing expressions that refer to people, places, things and events
• 5 recognising collective nouns for family members to describe extended kinship
• 6 identifying known word formation processes, for example, changing a word with the addition or change of a prefix or suffix to convey different meanings
• 7

  recognising temporal expressions, for example, day-night cycle, lunar and seasonal cycles, before, after, soon, recent, long ago or equivalent if appropriate in [Language] expressions for cosmological time

• 8

  identifying adverbs of manner, location and time, for example, again, more, in turn, too late, as well or equivalent if appropriate in [Language] and placing them in a word chart according to category

• 9

  using a range of conjunctions to join groups of sentences together, for example, using because, so or equivalent if appropriate in [Language]

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