AC9LT4U01 Years 3 to 4 Languages

Content descriptor recognise and use modelled combinations of sounds, pronunciation and intonation patterns of Turkish to form words and phrases

Elaborations

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