AC9LVF03 – Foundation Languages: null

This Content Descriptor from Foundation 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.

Elaborations

• 1 locating Vietnam on a world map, understanding that Vietnamese is the national language of Vietnam, and that it is spoken in Vietnamese-speaking communities in Australia and around the world
• 2

  exploring the different languages spoken by class members and listening to the different sounds and ways of saying common expressions such as Em chào cô/thầy. Em tên là ...

• 3 observing, through visual and audiovisual resources, that members of Vietnamese-speaking communities may do everyday things similarly to or differently from themselves, for example, speaking a different language or using chopsticks and a spoon
• 4 noticing how local names of streets, places and landmarks can have their origins in language(s) of First Nations Australians
• 5 using the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) map of the languages of Australia to notice the language(s) of First Nations Australians in their local area and/or across Australia
• 6

  noticing their own use of words, expressions or behaviours that make them who they are, including words from different languages or ways of celebrating that may not be familiar to other people, for example, starting a meal with Con mời ba mẹ ăn cơm!

• 7 exchanging ideas, feelings and understandings of language and culture through play-based experiences, for example, puppets, playing dress-ups, pretend restaurants and market stands
• 8

  playing and engaging with cultural items such as Vietnamese currency, for example, using Vietnamese currency đồng when they play shops

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