AC9LSF02 Foundation Languages

This Content Descriptor from Foundation 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 tracing letters and common words in Spanish and English, identifying some similarities and differences
• 2 playing alphabet games and songs, imitating sounds, intonation patterns and tongue placement and shape of mouth to pronounce letters
• 3

  noticing words that have similar pronunciation in Spanish and English, for example, cognates like mango, melón, kiwi, coco, cereal

• 4

  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

• 5 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
• 6

  observing simple noun+adjective word order differences, for example, perro grande and big dog

• 7

  demonstrating early literacy skills by noticing phonetic similarities and differences between Spanish and English, for example, ñ, trilled r, ll

• 8

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

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