AC9LS2U01 Years 1 to 2 Languages

Content descriptor recognise and imitate the sounds and rhythms of Spanish

Elaborations

• • Elaboration becoming familiar with the sounds of the alphabet in Spanish, noticing that there is an additional letter when compared with English, ñ
• • Elaboration imitating Spanish sounds such as j in viaje, ñ in niño, ll in calle, and rr in carro
• • Elaboration recognising that some sounds in Spanish do not exist in English and vice versa, so they may be challenging to pronounce, for example, La letra erre, la ere
• • Elaboration recognising and applying Spanish vowel sounds and vowel consonant combinations
• • Elaboration identifying additional consonants and digraphs in Spanish such as ñ, ch, and the pronunciation of double consonants such as ll and rr, and experimenting with the positioning of the tongue when producing these sounds
• • Elaboration Iistening to familiar vocabulary and identifying h as a silent letter, for example, hola, hermano, hoy, and comparing words beginning with h in Spanish and English, hola and hello, jirafa and jelly
• • Elaboration noticing that statements and questions have different intonation, for example, ¡Fernando no está! ¿Fernando no está?, ¿María tiene cinco años?

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• • Elaboration developing pronunciation, phrasing and intonation skills by singing, reciting and repeating words and phrases in context, for example, marching to a tune or beat
• • Elaboration experimenting with sounds in onomatopoeic words, such as those related to animal sounds, for example, pío (cheep), quiquiriquí (cock-a-doodle-doo), miau (miaow), guau (woof), and actions, for example, bum, cataplún