AC9LS4U03 Year 3 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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.

recognise familiar Spanish language features and compare with those of English, in known contexts

Elaborations

• 1

  building metalanguage to talk about grammar and vocabulary singular, plural, masculino, femenino, artículo, adjetivo, sinónimo … and comparing with equivalent terms in English

• 2 recognising similarities and differences between spoken and written forms of different types of texts in both Spanish and English, for example, comparing a written story with a spoken one or a letter with a phone call
• 3 comparing features of similar texts in Spanish and English, for example, greeting cards, interactive games or canteen menus, and discussing the use of words, expressions and word order
• 4 recognising language of familiarity and how the language of texts such as invitations, apologies or greeting cards may vary, depending on the relationship between the sender and the receiver
• 5 using English punctuation knowledge to apply to Spanish texts, for example, commas, semicolons, capital letters for start of sentence and proper nouns, and to compare the use of exclamation and question marks
• 6

  beginning to recognise Spanish cognate patterns, for example, the common Spanish and English suffix –ción/ tion used to form noun versions of verbs, acción/action, celebración/celebration, condición/condition, nación/nation, and ficción/fiction

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