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• VCRAU015

  Recognise that ways of greeting and addressing others may change according to cultural norms

  Elaborations

  • knowing that different terms of address are used for teachers and friends
  • understanding that language varies in formality depending on the people involved
  • recognising that greetings may vary according to the time of day

  VCRAU015 | Languages | Roman Alphabet Languages | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Understanding | Language variation and change

• VCRAU014

  Understand that language is organised as ‘text’, and recognise features of texts such as songs, chants, labels and captions

  Elaborations

  • recognising that sentences have separate parts, observing features of familiar texts such as greetings in a conversation, the chorus in a song, or rhyme in a song/poem
  • understanding that texts have a purpose, for example, recounts are ways of describing past events and greeting cards can convey feelings

  VCRAU014 | Languages | Roman Alphabet Languages | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCRAC007

  Use familiar words, phrases and patterns to create captions and participate in shared performances and games

  Elaborations

  • creating students' version of a story by sequencing a series of pictures with captions or by creating a storyboard with labels using modelled language
  • creating a new part of a text such as changing a character or adding an extra verse in a song by, for example, matching pictures and captions
  • making a big book based on an event, experience or shared text

  VCRAC007 | Languages | Roman Alphabet Languages | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Communicating | Creating

• VCRAC001

  Participate in structured play and class activities, exchanging greetings and information about self, family and interests with peers and teacher

  Elaborations

  • learning how to greet others at different times of the day using appropriate forms of address and body language
  • expressing feelings, opinions and reactions
  • introducing and giving descriptions of self, family members, pets and favourite objects

  VCRAC001 | Languages | Roman Alphabet Languages | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Communicating | Socialising

• VCRAU016

  Develop awareness that languages borrow from each other

  Elaborations

  • knowing that both languages use the same alphabet
  • recognising that many languages borrow words from English and that English borrows many words from other languages
  • keeping a class record of words in the language that are borrowed from other languages, including loan words from Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages

  VCRAU016 | Languages | Roman Alphabet Languages | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Understanding | Language variation and change

• VCRAU013

  Recognise questions, commands and simple sentences, and develop vocabulary for people, places and things in their personal world

  Elaborations

  • identifying people using pronouns
  • describing possession in familiar phrases
  • greeting and farewelling others
  • specifying location
  • describing actions using simple verbs
  • understanding different question words and the anticipated answer
  • using imperatives to tell others to do something
  • referring to numbers of things using cardinal numbers
  • describing the colour, size, shape and character of a person, place or thing
  • joining words or phrases using conjunctions
  • using negation

  VCRAU013 | Languages | Roman Alphabet Languages | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Understanding | Systems of language