Italian: F–10 Sequence / Levels 3 and 4 / Understanding / Language variation and change
Content description
Understand that languages change with use over time
Elaborations
maintaining a record of loan words from English to Italian and from Italian to English, noting how borrowing relates to cultural change, for example, new terms for technologies, or the use of Italian words in English advertisements or English words in Italian advertisements
observing language used across generations, such as by noticing differences in words used by grandparents, parents and themselves, and suggesting why these differences occur