AC9LV8U01 Year 7 Languages

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.

apply knowledge of conventions of spoken Vietnamese to enhance fluency, and to respond to and create texts in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

• 1

  applying Vietnamese pronunciation and spelling rules to own speech and writing to pronounce and spell new words encountered in interactions and texts, for example, if the spelling of the word mười is known, then the spelling of the word người can be determined without knowing its meaning

• 2

  experimenting with intonation patterns to distinguish different types of sentences, for example, a statement Con không đi chơi đâu.; a question Con không đi chơi đâu?; and an exclamation Con không đi chơi đâu!

• 3

  distinguishing and making nuances in pronunciation and spelling between some similar diphthongs and triphthongs, for example, chiều cao and cây cau, lỗ mũi and con muỗi, cái túi and trái chuối

• 4 developing features of spoken Vietnamese, including intonation, tone and stress, to increase fluency and enhance expression in a range of activities such as listening to and repeating pronunciation using digital tools, reading aloud and conversing with a wide range of people
• 5 listening to short interactions between unfamiliar voices at diverse speeds or levels of clarity to develop auditory and comprehension skills
• 6 developing strategies to understand meaning when listening to diverse regional Vietnamese accents, for example, inferring meaning from the context
• 7

  practising ways in which tone varies according to setting and context, for example, saying the same sentence in different tones to (friendly/unfriendly, respectful/ironic, etc.) to change the meaning, such as Hôm nay, em tới sớm thế!

• 8

  comparing own Vietnamese speech patterns with Standard Vietnamese pronunciation, and making adjustments to their pronunciation of certain sounds or tone markers as necessary, for example, g and r, s and x, ch and tr, or d and gi and v

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