AC9LS4U01 Years 3 to 4 Languages

Content descriptor recognise and use modelled combinations of sounds, pronunciation and intonation patterns of Spanish to form words and phrases

Elaborations

• • Elaboration applying the rules of the silent h as in hamaca, ahora and almohada and recognising that loan words, for example, hotel, hipopótamo, hospital, héroe, hamburguesa, helicóptero also do not pronounce the h as they would in English
• • Elaboration recognising and using different intonation for statements, commands, exclamations and questions, for example, Rosa va a la escuela; ¿Rosa va a la escuela?; ¡Vamos todos! ¡Ay, ay, ay!
• • Elaboration using knowledge of familiar sounds and patterns to spell new words, for example, predicting how to spell Pablo having first learnt the spelling of hablo, pato and gato, or lápiz and lapicero
• • Elaboration playing games, such as Word Bingo and Snap, with more difficult sounds, for example, the letter c in camino/coco compared with cero/ciruela
• • Elaboration exploring the function of accents in relation to stress and pronunciation, for example, café, teléfono, árbol
• • Elaboration understanding that some letters blend to make single sounds, for example, gu in seguimos or qu in queso
• • Elaboration using onomatopoeia during group reading and spoken text, for animal sounds, actions and reactions, for example, Achís, Auuuu, Boing