AC9LTF02 Foundation Languages

Content descriptor explore, with support, language features of Turkish noticing similarities and differences between Turkish and English

Elaborations

• • Elaboration observing that written Turkish uses the same letters as written English, although Turkish has 29 letters and English has 26
• • Elaboration noticing that some letters in Turkish have diacritic marks to assist with pronunciation
• • Elaboration tracing the letters of the alphabet and imitating the sound, for example, a, b, c, ç …
• • Elaboration participating in alphabet songs, chants, rhymes to imitate Turkish pronunciation, intonation and stress
• • Elaboration making connections with Turkish words and phrases used in everyday life, for example, identifying food names such as kebab, pide, yoghurt
• • Elaboration experimenting with sounds (animal sounds, etc.) used in Turkish, for example, using the sounds hav hav (woof woof), miyav miyav (miaow miaow), gıt gıt gıdak (cluck cluck), möö (moo), vak vak (quack quack) and comparing these sounds with animal sounds in English and other languages represented in the class
• • Elaboration identifying cognates in Turkish and English, for example, princess – prenses, photograph – fotoğraf, television – televizyon

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• • Elaboration noticing when Turkish or English is being used in the classroom