AC9LT4U01 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 and use modelled combinations of sounds, pronunciation and intonation patterns of Turkish to form words and phrases

Elaborations

• 1 learning about back (a, ı, o, u) and front (e, i, ö, ü) vowels in Turkish and applying the vowel harmony rule to high-frequency words
• 2

  applying the rule of vowel harmony for suffixes with root words and learning about exceptions to the rule in relation to loan and compound words and to some Turkish words, such as bugün, kardeş and kalem

• 3

  developing awareness of the devoicing and doubling of final consonants, as in kitap- kitabı, kanat-kanadı, sokak-sokağa and git-gittim, sır-sırrım

• 4

  learning the pronunciation and spelling of high-frequency words with yumuşak g (soft g) ğ, as in yağmur and ağaç, and understanding that this sound is never used at the beginning of words

• 5

  noticing how people adapt language when speaking with young children, using expressions such as bebişim, cici, and how young children speak differently to adults and older children, for example, using the ending -cik as in anneciğim ve babacığım when talking to parents

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