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Italian / Year 7 and 8 / Understanding language and culture / Understanding systems of language
Curriculum content descriptions
recognise and use features of the Italian sound system, including pitch, rhythm, stress, pronunciation and intonation, and demonstrate understanding of how these are represented in familiar contexts (AC9LIT8EU01)
Elaborations
- recognising that Standard Italian is used in Italy and in diverse communities throughout the world, and that many speakers of Italian may also speak a regional and/or local dialect
examining differences in pronunciation of consonant and vowel combinations, double consonants, stress and accents, and applying to their own work, for example, famiglie, gnocchi, chiese, barche, chiavi, buono, cena, azione; sono and sonno, vale and valle; felicità, capacità, papa and pappa, casa and cassa, nono and nonno
imitating the sound combinations of Italian, for example, consonant combinations ‘ce’, ‘ci’, ‘co’, ‘cu’, ‘ca’, ‘chi’, ‘che’, ‘gi’, ‘ge’, ‘go’, ‘gu’, ‘ghi’, ‘ghe’, ‘sci’, ‘sce’, ‘schi’, ‘sche’
recognising the differences in tone and rhythm between statements, questions, exclamations and commands when speaking, interacting and expressing emotion, for example, Vai a casa? Va’ a casa! Oh! E? Ahimè!
making connections between spoken and written forms, and understanding the effect of grave and acute accent marks on pronunciation and meaning, for example, papa/papà; città, perché, cioè
recognising and understanding the role of pause fillers and using them to assist the flow of conversation, for example, beginning to use Insomma; Allora; Dunque; Vediamo ... when appropriate
- checking pronunciation of words using sound files and text-to-speech software
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Intonation, Italian language, Katakana, Stress (Speech)