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Chinese / Year 7 and 8 / Understanding language and culture / Understanding systems of language
Curriculum content descriptions
recognise and use tone-syllable pronunciation and intonation patterns to form words and phrases, and Pinyin to support learning pronunciation (AC9LC8EU01)
Elaborations
- exploring key features of Chinese phonology, examining the range of sounds and recognising how spoken syllables and tones are represented in Pinyin by spelling words in Pinyin, or reading aloud words and sentences in Pinyin with attention to pronunciation, tone and phrasing
- differentiating between sounds and tones when listening to or producing spoken Chinese, for example, distinguishing between 我买 and 我卖东西, or 床 and 穿
- recognising and discriminating between homonyms in Chinese, for example, 是 and 室, relying on contexts to assist understanding, and differentiating syllables with different tones, for example, 是 and 十
- performing Chinese songs and experimenting with rhythm, voice, emotion and gesture, to convey the intended sentiment, and exploring the meaning and message
- listening to Chinese words showing the tones on a computer, recording the same words with the same tonal sounds, and playing back the recording to check pronunciation
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Language modes, Chinese languages, Intonation