AC9LSF02 Foundation Languages

Content descriptor explore, with support, language features of Spanish noticing similarities and differences between Spanish and English

Elaborations

• • Elaboration tracing letters and common words in Spanish and English, identifying some similarities and differences
• • Elaboration playing alphabet games and songs, imitating sounds, intonation patterns and tongue placement and shape of mouth to pronounce letters
• • Elaboration noticing words that have similar pronunciation in Spanish and English, for example, cognates like mango, melón, kiwi, coco, cereal
• • Elaboration starting to notice the gender of Spanish nouns by listening to differences and using a range of props and visual cues, for example, toys, el oso and animals, la jirafa
• • Elaboration participating in Spanish versions of children’s songs, games and rhymes, identifying some similarities and differences compared with English versions, for example, characters, tunes, keywords and cognates
• • Elaboration observing simple noun+adjective word order differences, for example, perro grande and big dog
• • Elaboration demonstrating early literacy skills by noticing phonetic similarities and differences between Spanish and English, for example, ñ, trilled r, ll

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• • Elaboration using simple negation patterns with formulaic language and gestures, for example, No me gusta ... with thumbs down or crossing hands or shaking head