AC9LV6U03 Years 5 to 6 Languages

Content descriptor compare some Vietnamese language structures and features with those of English, using some familiar metalanguage

Elaborations

• • Elaboration identifying and comparing the language features of different text types in Vietnamese and English, such as descriptive language in narratives or persuasive language in advertisements
• • Elaboration discussing aspects of grammar using metalanguage in Vietnamese or English, for example, danh từ/noun, động từ/verb, tính từ/adjective, chủ ngữ/subject, vị ngữ/predicate
• • Elaboration comparing the structural features of familiar personal, informative and imaginative Vietnamese and English texts, for example, dates on diary entries and letters, greetings in emails or conversations, and titles of stories
• • Elaboration comparing different types of texts, such as recipes, songs, stories, recounts or conversations to identify audience and purpose used in both Vietnamese and English
• • Elaboration understanding how to create textual cohesion by using elements such as adverbs of sequence, for example, thứ nhất, thứ nhì, trước tiên, kế đến, rồi, sau cùng, and conjunctions, for example, và, với, hay, hoặc, vì, nhưng, to sequence and link ideas, and comparing how these work with English
• • Elaboration creating comparative lists of vocabulary, in Vietnamese and English, which can be used in different contexts, for example, the use of imperatives in a set of instructions, Đứng lên! Ngồi xuống! Mở tập ra! Nghe và lặp lại, or the frequent use of time and place markers, ngày xửa ngày xưa, hôm qua, hôm nay, ngày mai, tuần tới in narratives