AC9LRF6U02 Years 5 to 6 Languages

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

Elaborations

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

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