Turkish: F–10 Sequence / Foundation to Level 2 / Understanding / Language variation and change
Content description
Recognise that different languages, including Turkish, borrow words and expressions from each other
Elaborations
recognising that languages continuously change and borrow from one another
recognising that Turkish uses loan words from English, such as internet, TV, ceket, film and futbol, and that English uses words from Turkish, such as yoghurt, coffee, horde, kiosk, turquoise
creating a class record of Turkish words used in English, such as doner kebab, shish kebab, yoghurt, dolma, cacik, comparing how these words are pronounced in the two languages
noticing words that come from different languages that students use in their everyday lives
