AC9LV8EU01 Year 7 Languages

AC9LV8EU01 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding systems of language

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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.

Content Descriptor

recognise and use features of the Vietnamese sound system, including tones, rhythm, pronunciation and intonation, and demonstrate understanding of how these are represented in familiar contexts

Elaborations

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exploring the Vietnamese alphabet, identifying letters that have no equivalent in the English alphabet, such as ă, â, ê, ô, ơ, ư and đ, and letters that have no equivalent in the Vietnamese alphabet, f, w, z
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reading, listening to and reproducing Vietnamese words with different tone markers, recognising that Vietnamese is a tonal language, and understanding that tone changes affect the meaning of a word, for example, ma (ghost), mà (but/that), má (mother), mả (grave), mã (horse), mạ (rice seedling)
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recognising that Vietnamese has different regional accents such as Northern, Central and Southern Vietnamese, for example, má/mẹ, ba/bố, dứa/thơm/khóm
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identifying similarities in pronunciation in Vietnamese borrowed words from different countries such as ga ra, tivi, video, phim, bò bít tết, xà phòng
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identifying words with the same syllables, including monophthongs, diphthongs and triphthongs, for example, đi thi, nho nhỏ, đo đỏ, ngày nay, máy bay, cười tươi, and developing awareness of sound-letter relationships and Vietnamese spelling rules
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differentiating between consonant blends that are pronounced similarly such as ch and tr, d and gi, s and x, for example, che chở versus trường học; đôi dép versus giữ nhà; cá sấu versus xấu quá
• using digital tools to check the correct pronunciation of Vietnamese and using voice-recording apps to check their own tone and intonation to develop fluency

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANVIE7_10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students use Vietnamese language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions, and recognise familiar gestures, questions and instructions in exchanges. They recognise relationships between spoken and written forms. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in Vietnamese or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language, and modelled sentence and grammatical structures to create texts. Students approximate tones, pronunciation and intonation in spoken Vietnamese. They demonstrate understanding that Vietnamese has conventions and rules for non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They comment on aspects of Vietnamese and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that the Vietnamese language is connected with culture and identity, and that this connection is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.