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Italian / Year 3 and 4 / Understanding / Language variation and change
Version 8
Curriculum content descriptions
Understand that Italian is spoken in a variety of forms within and outside of Italy (ACLITU037)
Elaborations
- recognising that Italian is one of the most widely used languages among the many languages spoken in the Australian community
- recognising that there is the standard language called ‘Italian’ as well as a number of different dialects spoken throughout Italy and the Italian diaspora, and that these may be used in hybrid ways
- discussing the influence of English words on the Italian language and considering why word borrowing occurs, for example, English words incorporated into Italian (il tennis, i jeans, fare lo shopping, l’email) and Italian words incorporated into English (espresso, bellissimo)
- identifying cognates, for example, nouns such as cioccolata, cinema, pera, parco and stazione; adjectives such as intelligente and interessante; and verbs such as arrivare, studiare, telefonare and visitare
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Dialects, Italian language