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Years 3 and 4 German

The nature of the learners At this level, children are developing awareness of their social world and membership of various groups, including that of the German class. They have developed initial literacy in English, and this assists to some degree in …

Years 3 and 4 | Years F–10 Sequence | German | Languages | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACLGEC120

exchanging simple correspondence such as notes, invitations or birthday cards in print or digital form

Elaboration (3) ACLGEC121

conducting real or simulated transactions such as a ‘picture swap’ or choosing a present for a friend, for example, Lara mag Puppen. Was kostet die Puppe?

Elaboration (3) ACLGEC123

identifying points of information in short spoken texts with some unfamiliar language, for example, the name and number on a recorded phone message, the age of a child interviewed, some items on a recorded shopping list

Elaboration (3) ACLGEC125

using a thinking tool to respond to an imaginative text in various ways, such as describing what emotions they feel listening to the story, for example, Das macht mich glücklich/traurig/nervös

Elaboration (3) ACLGEC126

producing and presenting illustrated or multimodal texts using a modelled structure, for example, an acrostic poem based on their first name or Elfchen

Elaboration (3) ACLGEC127

comparing the Australian and German ways of writing a postal address, for example, in German the Hausnummer appears after the street name and the Postleitzahl appears before the suburb/town

Elaboration (3) ACLGEC129

noticing that there are alternative ideas and ways of interacting to those offered by one’s own language and culture

Elaboration (3) ACLGEC130

communicating about identity and language use within the family context, such as positioning self within the family and identifying own and family members’ heritage, for example, Ich bin Australier/-in. Mein Opa kommt aus Griechenland.

Elaboration (3) ACLGEU131

encoding and decoding familiar German words using alphabetic knowledge of single letters, consonant clusters (sch) and vowel combinations (au, ei, eu, ie), applying learnt memory aids such as ‘when E and I go walking, the second one does the talking’

Elaboration (3) ACLGEU132

describing a relationship using a possessive adjective, for example, mein/e, dein/e, sein/e, ihr/e

Elaboration (3) ACLGEU133

discussing the structure of shared reading texts, identifying sentences, questions, answers and greetings (Satz, Frage, Antwort and Gruß), and recognising how different textual elements such as title, layout, script and images combine to make meaning

Elaboration (3) ACLGEU134

exploring questions such as why we have greetings and what different greetings tell us, for example, time of day, relationship with the speaker, and background of the speaker

Elaboration (3) ACLGEU136

learning how to communicate about culture and language using terms such as ‘meaning’, ‘difference’ and ‘behaviour’

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