AC9LV10EU01 Year 9 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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.

apply features of the Vietnamese sound system, including tones, pace, rhythm, pronunciation and intonation, and show how these are represented in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

• 1

  recognising the differences in intonation between statements such as Con không đi chơi đâu., questions Con không đi chơi đâu à? and exclamations Con không đi chơi đâu!

• 2

  applying appropriate pauses and intonation to signal clause boundaries and emphasis, for example, Em thích học môn tiếng Việt vì lớp rất vui.

• 3

  identifying variations in pronunciation from different regions such as North, Central and South, for example, different ways of pronouncing dấu hỏi and dấu ngã, s and x, ch as tr, v/gi and d, and final consonants such as -t and -c in khuôn mặt and mặc áo

• 4 understanding that spelling follows standardised rules even though there are some variations in Vietnamese pronunciation across different regions of Vietnam
• 5

  recognising the challenges of communication associated with clarity and pace in audio texts in certain situations, such as station or airport announcements or recorded phone messages, for example, Thưa quý khách, chuyến bay VA123 sẽ khởi hành trong vòng ít phút nữa

• 6 developing features of spoken Vietnamese, including intonation, tone and stress, to increase fluency and enhance expression in a range of activities such as listening to and repeating pronunciation using digital tools
• 7 experimenting with intonation and stress, improving coherence and increasing expressive range by singing popular Vietnamese songs or by reading aloud from unfamiliar texts, for example, newspapers, novels, reports

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