AC9LS4U03 Years 3 to 4 Languages

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

Elaborations

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