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Chinese / Year 3 and 4 / Understanding language and culture / Understanding systems of language
Curriculum content descriptions
recognise familiar Chinese language features and compare with those of English, in known contexts (AC9LC4U03)
Elaborations
- comparing the similarities and differences of Chinese sentence structure with English subject+verb+object, and questions, for example, comparing “Do you have a cat?” versus 你有猫吗？, or “Whats your name?” with 你叫什么名字？
- exploring the Pinyin alphabet and comparing with Roman alphabet, recognising that initials such as ‘x’, ‘q’, ‘c’, ‘zh’, ‘g’, ‘shi’, ‘chi’, ‘zhi’, ‘pi’, ‘ji’ and vowels such as ‘i’, ‘e’, ‘u’, ‘ie’ are pronounced differently from English
- recognising grammatical features and how their use differs in Chinese and English, for example, recognising the lack of articles in Chinese, that adjectives can be used as verbs, and the limited use of the verb ‘to be’ 是
- recognising that Chinese uses measures, and comparing measure word usage in Chinese and English
- discussing differences in Chinese names and English names, for example, discussing how Chinese surnames are written first and given names follow
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Register (Language), Chinese languages, Language conventions, Metalanguage