AC9LV2U03 Years 1 to 2 Languages

Content descriptor notice that Vietnamese has features that may be similar to or different from English

Elaborations

• • Elaboration noticing that Vietnamese and English use the Roman alphabet and that there may be variations in the pronunciation of letters with or without tone marks
• • Elaboration comparing Vietnamese and English word order, for example, noticing that in Vietnamese objects are described with noun+adjective such as táo đỏ and that English is the opposite ‘red apple’
• • Elaboration developing number knowledge and identifying the similarities and differences in cardinal and ordinal numbers in Vietnamese and English, for example, mười = 10 and một = 1 and the combined words mười một = 11, whereas in the English counting system there is a different word for ‘eleven’
• • Elaboration exploring similar text types in Vietnamese and English, such as songs, street signs or labels on goods at a market, and noticing ways in which they are similar or different, for example, comparing rhyming or repeating words quác quác quác, quạc quạc quạc in the song Một con vịt and ‘quack, quack, quack’ in English
• • Elaboration recognising that languages use words borrowed from other languages, and that many English, French and Chinese words are used in Vietnamese such as video, tivi, taxi, internet, and nhà ga (train station), xe buýt (bus) and phụ huynh (parents)