Chinese

Year Level Description

At this stage, students begin to communicate at a working proficiency level. With minimal teacher support, they explore in-depth stories. They continue to expand their repertoire to spontaneously express themselves and manipulate the written language with relative ease, fluency and confidence. Students use a wider range of multimedia texts and deepen their intercultural knowledge and language awareness.

Achievement Standard

Communication Skills Development

• Expresses simple complete thoughts in guided, teacher-led self-expression.
• Displays knowledge of high frequency associations.
• Interacts spontaneously with peers and teacher at a basic level.
• Expresses partial and short complete thoughts, with the help of gestures.

Literacy Skills Development

• Understands the vocabulary within a play.
• Memorises, rehearses and dramatises a play with the class, in pairs and in small groups.
• Completes more open-ended oral and written language manipulation activities based on the story.
• Demonstrates an inductive awareness of some basic, high frequency grammatical concepts, such as plural nouns, gender, measure words and the use of some interrogatives.
• Writes and types short Pinyin texts with the aid of a word list, for factual and creative purposes.
• Recognises and copies more characters, with an awareness of correct stroke order and proportion.

Intercultural Knowledge and Language Awareness

• Uses and evaluates effective language learning strategies e.g. grouping of characters.
• Demonstrates knowledge of aspects of Chinese culture through mini projects.
• Inductively identifies aspects of China through the viewing of popular contemporary TV programs, animations and songs.