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Japanese / Year 3 and 4 / Understanding / Systems of language
Curriculum content descriptions
Understand and identify elements of basic grammar and sentence structure and interaction patterns
[Key concepts: verb conjugation, particles, word order, vocabulary, counter; Key processes: describing, indicating, identifying, questioning]
(ACLJAU140)
Elaborations
- developing metalanguage for communicating about language, using concepts such as parts of speech, for example, ‘noun’, ‘verb’ and ‘adjective’
- understanding the rules of Japanese word order (subject + object + verb), the use of associated particles は、を、と、も、に, and the use of が in formulaic expressions, for example, noun が すき です。
- describing actions using verb ます form, for example, すし を たべます。
- understanding the rules for conjugating verbs, such as ～ます、～>ましょう、～ました、～ません
- understanding that Japanese uses name + suffix instead of pronouns when referring to other people, for example, Johnくん、はなさん、Grant せんせい
- indicating time and frequency using expressions such as まいにち、ときどき
- describing people, animals, places and things using adjective–noun phrases, for example, 大きい 目、おいしい もも
- understanding time words associated with days of the week, months of the year and seasons
- building vocabulary that relates to familiar environments in daily life and personal worlds and that can be used for cross-curricular content learning
- beginning to use counters in Japanese, for example, ～人、～さい、～月
- telling time using ～じ/ ～じはん です。なんじ です か。
- seeking information using question words such as なに、なん、いつ、どこ and だれ and the sentence-ending particle か, for example, なに が すき です か。なんさい です か。なんにん です か。いつ です か。
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Vocabularies, Conjugation (Grammar), Word order, Grammatical particles, Japanese language