Standard Chinese: Australian curriculum – Key learning areas for Stage 2 (Years 3&4):
Strand: Communicating meaning in Chinese
Sub-strand: Interacting in Chinese
- initiate exchanges and respond to modelled questions about self, others, and classroom environment, using formulaic expressions AC9LC4C01
- participate in activities that involve planning and transacting with others, using a range of familiar phrases and modelled structures AC9LC4C02
Sub-strand: Mediating meaning in and between languages
- locate and respond to key information related to familiar content obtained from spoken, written and multimodal texts AC9LC4C03
- develop strategies to comprehend and adjust Chinese language in familiar contexts to convey cultural meaning AC9LC4C04
Sub-strand: Creating text in Chinese
- create and present informative and imaginative spoken, written and multimodal texts using formulaic expressions, simple sentences and modelled textual conventions, familiar characters appropriate to context, and/or Pinyin AC9LC4C05
Strand: Understanding language and culture
Sub-strand: Understanding systems of language
- recognise and use modelled combinations of sounds, tone-syllable pronunciation and intonation patterns to form words and phrases, and understand that Pinyin is the romanisation of characters AC9LC4U01
- recognise some features of the Chinese writing system, familiar components and/or characters, simple sentence structures and basic syntax, in familiar texts and contexts AC9LC4U02
- recognise familiar Chinese language features and compare with those of English, in known contexts AC9LC4U03
Sub-strand: Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture
- identify connections between Chinese language and cultural practices AC9LC4U04