AC9SF03 – 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 exploring the use of formal ways of addressing unfamiliar people such as an adult, and informal ways of addressing familiar people such as friends, and understanding that language can convey manners and respect
• 2 understanding that the Spanish language is spoken in many places in the world
• 3 exploring different languages and cultures of class members and identifying different ways of greeting and expressing common terms such as yes/no, hello/goodbye, etc.
• 4 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
• 5 noticing how local names of streets, places and landmarks can have their origins in language(s) of First Nations Australians
• 6 engaging with a range of authentic visual resources such as videos, animations, pictures, books and posters to explore Spanish-speaking countries’ celebrations, customs, costumes and food, and common expressions and language related to these events
• 7 looking at some familiar words for foods and their origins, for example, tacos, tortilla, paella, churros
• 8 understanding that there are many different languages in the world, and that Spanish is spoken by different communities of speakers, and that some people may speak more than one language

Related Achievement Standards