AC9LT4U03
Years 3 to 4
Languages
AC9LT4U03 | Years 3 to 4 Turkish: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor recognise familiar Turkish language features and compare with those of English, in known contexts
Foundation to Year 10 sequence
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 3 to 4 Turkish · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration understanding that Turkish is a phonetic language and that every letter represents a single sound
- • Elaboration noticing that Turkish uses diacritic marks to assist pronunciation
- • Elaboration recognising that Turkish and English have the same punctuation rules, for example, using a capital letter at the beginning of sentences and a full stop at the end of a sentence, commas, question marks and exclamation marks
- • Elaboration comparing how people speak or refer to other people in Turkish and English, such as to older relatives, classmates or teachers, and recognising that Turkish and English have different ways of showing politeness, for example, abla, ağabey, amca, teyze, öğretmenim
- • Elaboration comparing familiar texts in Turkish and English and noticing features they have in common, for example, the start of fairy tales in Turkish Bir varmış, bir yokmuş, evvel zaman içinde ... compared with ‘Once upon a time …’ in English, and analysing rhymes, lines and verses in Turkish and English poems
- • Elaboration exploring different types of texts in Turkish and English and identifying purpose and intended audience, for example, differences between elektronik yazılı, mesaj-telefon, görüşmesi, yazılı diyalog, masal-fıkra.
- • Elaboration finding English words used in Turkish, such as web sitesi, sosyal medya and tişört, considering differences between these and the types of Turkish words used in English
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- • Elaboration identifying loan words from other languages, for example, tren, doktor, baklava, çikolata, sıfır, şeker, tiyatro, balkon, and discussing why particular kinds of words are more likely to be adopted
- • Elaboration recognising the sentence structure in Turkish as subject-object-verb, for example, Burak (subject) ayakkabısını (object) temizledi. (verb), whereas English sentence structure is subject+verb+object
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