Chinese

Year Level Description

At this stage, students work at a developing fluency level. Requiring occasional teacher assistance, they explore in-depth stories. Students recycle and expand their vocabulary and knowledge, and manipulate more high frequency vocabulary and structures for their own, increasingly complex, spontaneous and unscripted oral and written communicative purposes. They read, copy and manipulate additional familiar Pinyin text and high frequency characters related to stories, and use a range of iPad applications to express themselves. Students deepen their intercultural knowledge and language awareness through more traditional children’s stories and songs, in addition to popular contemporary animations.

Achievement Standard

Communication Skills Development

• Recognises recycled and newly introduced words and their gestures.
• Comprehends and produces the complete spontaneous thoughts and words which a teacher gestures.
• Communicates in a spontaneous and unscripted manner.

Literacy Skills Development

• Memorises, rehearses and dramatises a play with the class and a partner.
• Responds to simple and some complex questions with gestural support and modelling from teacher.
• Completes increasingly complex language manipulation activities as the teacher models them with the class.
• Produces spontaneous and unscripted sentences orally.
• Recognises and writes a few sentences in Pinyin using a word list.
• Recognises, copies and matches familiar high frequency characters.

Intercultural Knowledge and Language Awareness

• Inductively identifies and uses key features of the language, such as grammatical gender, tones, measure words and some tenses.
• Inductively identifies some similarities and differences in Australian and Chinese cultural values viewing traditional and contemporary stories and animations.