AC9LTF02 Foundation Languages

This Content Descriptor from Foundation 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 observing that written Turkish uses the same letters as written English, although Turkish has 29 letters and English has 26
• 2 noticing that some letters in Turkish have diacritic marks to assist with pronunciation
• 3

  tracing the letters of the alphabet and imitating the sound, for example, a, b, c, ç …

• 4 participating in alphabet songs, chants, rhymes to imitate Turkish pronunciation, intonation and stress
• 5 making connections with Turkish words and phrases used in everyday life, for example, identifying food names such as kebab, pide, yoghurt
• 6

  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

• 7

  identifying cognates in Turkish and English, for example, princess – prenses, photograph – fotoğraf, television – televizyon

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

Related Achievement Standards