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Italian / Year 1 and 2 / Understanding language and culture / Understanding systems of language
Curriculum content descriptions
recognise and imitate the sounds and rhythms of Italian (AC9LIT2U01)
Elaborations
- imitating the pronunciation of the 21 letters of the Italian alphabet
- reproducing Italian sounds and intonation patterns through imitation, and reciting nursery rhymes, tongue twisters and songs
- imitating Italian speech using Italian patterns of intonation, pronunciation and stress, and incorporating appropriate gestures, facial expressions and body language
- practising rolling ‘r’ by reciting rhymes and chants
- comparing vowel sounds in Italian and English
recognising ‘c’ as in ciao sounds like ‘ch’ in English and that ‘ch’ as in chi sounds like a ‘k’ in English
observing that words which stress the final letter have an accent on that letter, for example, papà, città
noticing syllable patterns in words such as la/sa/gna; pa/ta/ta
- acknowledging that rising intonation denotes a question
- noticing that Italian is a phonetic language and is written as it sounds
comparing similarities and differences in pronunciation of cognates with English, for example, università, animale, appartamento
- recognising that there are different dialects spoken in Italy and variations of accents in Italian-speaking communities in the diaspora
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Speech sounds, Intonation, Accents (Speech)