AC9LV10EU03 Years 9 to 10 Languages

Content descriptor reflect on and evaluate Vietnamese texts, using metalanguage to discuss language structures and features

Elaborations

• • Elaboration using metalanguage in Vietnamese or English to identify the grammatical differences between the languages such as word order, verb moods, tenses hiện tại hoàn thành/present perfect, mạo từ sở hữu/possessive pronouns, tính từ và phân từ sở hữu/agreements of adjectives and participles, động từ bỗ trợ/auxiliary verbs
• • Elaboration exploring different types of texts such as recounts, emails, diary and advertisements, and analysing the relationships between audience, purpose, context and language features to predict the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary
• • Elaboration exploring the ways in which content is developed in different types of texts, and how ideas and information are sequenced, for example, headings, paragraphing, topic sentences, elaborations, and topic/idea shifts
• • Elaboration understanding the use of text conventions such as culturally appropriate salutations and forms of address that depend on relationship or social status in specific text types such as letters, speeches or interviews, for example, kính thưa/thưa/thân mến/thương mến/kính chào/chào
• • Elaboration identifying and comparing language features of different text types, for example, the use of first person such as mình/tô, descriptive khoẻ mạnh/thông minh/hiền lành and emotive language vui mừng/hạnh phúc in personal recounts and diary entries
• • Elaboration recognising differences in Vietnamese and English responses to negative tag questions to avoid misinterpretation, for example, the response to the question, Em chưa làm bài tập về nhà phải không? You haven’t done your homework, have you?, would be Dạ phải. Em chưa làm. Yes, I haven’t, while in English it would be, No, I haven’t.