AC9LV2U01 Years 1 to 2 Languages

Content descriptor recognise and imitate the sounds, tones and rhythms of Vietnamese

Elaborations

• • Elaboration building phonic awareness by recognising and experimenting with sounds and rhythms, focusing on letters that are similar in the English alphabet but produce different sounds in Vietnamese, for example, e and i, d and đ
• • Elaboration recognising sounds that are specific to Vietnamese, for example, ă, â, ê, ô ơ, u, ư, d, đ
• • Elaboration developing familiarity with similarities and differences in Vietnamese sound-letter correspondence, such as a, ă, â; e, ê; o, ô, ơ; u, ư; as well as c and k, i and y, s and x, and ch and tr
• • Elaboration noticing that Vietnamese is a tonal language that uses 5 tone markers, and that pitch changes affect the meaning of words, for example, ma, mà, má, mả, mã and mạ
• • Elaboration developing pronunciation, phrasing and intonation skills by singing, reciting and repeating words and phrases
• • Elaboration understanding that Vietnamese language only has single syllables, but it has compound words, for example, Nguyên pronounced as one syllable Nguyen not Ngu-yen
• • Elaboration listening to simple texts and identifying where tone changes the meaning of a word, for example, on an interactive whiteboard, selecting where tone changes the meaning of words in Tâm ca cả ngày được ăn cả con cá. Bạn con bán cái bàn.