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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

• 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

• 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

• VCRAC009

  Create captions, labels and statements for the immediate learning environment

  Elaborations

  • writing captions, with support, for a photographic display about a class event or experience such as sports day or keeping a class pet to show parents/others
  • as a class, writing instructions for children on how to perform a game, noticing what can and cannot be translated easily, for example, duck duck goose
  • making own bilingual/picture dictionaries, captions, signs, labels and descriptions to convey culture-specific ideas
  • showing others how different gestures are used and discussing what they mean, for example, culturally appropriate ways of beckoning

  VCRAC009 | Languages | Roman Alphabet Languages | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Communicating | Translating