AC9LT4C04 Years 3 to 4 Languages

Content descriptor develop strategies to comprehend and adjust Turkish language in familiar contexts to convey cultural meaning

Elaborations

• • Elaboration predicting the meaning of unknown words and expressions by using context in texts such as greeting cards, invitations or public signs
• • Elaboration finding cognates in texts to expand vocabulary knowledge, for example, üniversite, televizyon, tren, telefon
• • Elaboration matching words to describe family members and relatives in Turkish and English, noticing words that have no English equivalents, such as dayı/amca/enişte, hala/yenge/teyze, ağabey/abla
• • Elaboration matching Turkish and English words and phrases used in everyday conversations, for example, ev ile ilgili kelimeler, yiyecekler, nesneler, haftanın günleri, aylar ve mevsimler, and sorting the matched pairs into groups based on equivalence or non-equivalence
• • Elaboration using multimodal resources to design word banks to talk about areas of personal interest or to compile common Turkish expressions, sayings and idioms that convey Turkish cultural practice
• • Elaboration learning to use print and digital dictionaries to assist comprehension by discovering the meaning of unknown words in texts
• • Elaboration translating and comparing familiar Turkish and English expressions, using bilingual and monolingual dictionaries, and identifying those that have no literal translation, such as Başın sağolsun. Darısı başına. Güle güle kullan. Gözün aydın. Hoş bulduk.Allahaısmarladık.

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• • Elaboration devising simple activities that involve alternating or combining repeated words or phrases in Turkish and English, for example, using questions, idiomatic expressions and responses to develop skills in adjusting language to cultural contexts
• • Elaboration collecting and classifying words, phrases and expressions in Turkish that also exist in English, such as televizyon, radyo, prens, prenses, identifying any differences in meaning or usage, for example, köşk – kiosk, Osmanlı – Ottoman
• • Elaboration finding ways to express meaning in Turkish of Australian-English terms and expressions, for example, ‘bushwalking’ and, “Good on you!” to newly arrived migrants