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• Modern Greek - F–10 Sequence: Levels 7 and 8 description

  By building their vocabulary knowledge, students are able to develop and express more complex concepts in Modern Greek. They use a range of grammatical forms and structures to convey relationships between ideas, events and experiences, developing awareness of the language structures and features...

  Level description | Languages | Modern Greek | F–10 Sequence

• Auslan - Second Language Learner - F–10 Sequence: Foundation to Level 2 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 2, students interact with teachers and each other to talk about themselves, their families, friends and immediate environment. They follow instructions to complete action-based activities such as signing games or transactional activities, using repeated constructions, gestures...

  Level description | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2

• Auslan - Second Language Learner - F–10 Sequence: Levels 3 and 4 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 4, students participate in classroom routines and structured interactions with teachers and peers. They communicate about daily routines, interests and pastimes; recount personal experiences and classroom events; and describe people, experiences or activities using simple depicting...

  Level description | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 3 and 4

• VCITC029

  Create simple bilingual texts

  Elaborations

  • creating simple bilingual texts for different purposes and audiences, for example, school/classroom signs, captions for a school event or a class/school display of ‘homes around the world’ or ‘classrooms around the world’
  • exploring meanings between Italian and English using picture dictionaries created for self or younger learners

  VCITC029 | Languages | Italian | F–10 Sequence | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Translating

• VCKOC009

  Create bilingual texts that refer to experiences, objects or events commonly encountered in both Australian and Korean contexts, considering how easily words or expressions translate and why some are more difficult to translate than others

  Elaborations

  • creating bilingual resources such as picture dictionaries or photo stories, including those in digital form, with bilingual captions and labels, for example, comparing photos of Korean and Australian classrooms for exchange students to each country and highlighting differences in the arrangement of furniture and wall displays
  • designing bilingual signage, for example, names of school facilities for school maps (화장실, 매점, 교실, 음악실, 수영장, …), explaining how well the translated labels represent the attributes of their designated items
  • creating and using bilingual texts, including those in digital form, for specific audiences (for example, a Big Book or game for young learners of Korean, invitations to a class event or posters for a performance), noticing how meanings need to be tailored to take account of intended audience and cultural perspectives

  VCKOC009 | Languages | Korean | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Communicating | Translating

• Spanish - F–10 Sequence: Levels 7 and 8 description

  Students expand their range of vocabulary beyond their immediate world and familiar experiences. They make clearer distinctions between stress and intonation patterns to increase fluency and enhance expression. They develop broader grammatical knowledge, using present, past and future tenses of...

  Level description | Languages | Spanish | F–10 Sequence

• Victorian Aboriginal Languages: Levels 7 to 10 description

  Students continue to engage with Country/Place to explore the environment and learn about Country/Place with respected community members.

  Students bring to their learning a range of language learning strategies. They are increasingly aware of the world beyond their own, and are engaging with the...

  Level description | Languages | Victorian Aboriginal Languages

• Victorian Aboriginal Languages: Levels 3 to 6 description

  Students focus on aspects of their personal and social worlds, and are introduced to content related to the Country/Place and language community. They develop an awareness of their membership of various groups, and their widening social networks, experiences, and communicative repertoires, and...

  Level description | Languages | Victorian Aboriginal Languages

• German - F–10 Sequence: Foundation to Level 2 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 2, students interact with teachers and peers through action-related talk and play. They introduce themselves, exchange greetings and farewells, for example, Ich heiße … Auf Wiedersehen! and express likes and dislikes. When interacting, they use short formulaic...

  Level description | Languages | German | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2

• VCITC008

  Create stories and perform imaginary experiences

  Elaborations

  • drawing illustrations and using captions, for example, making a big book or photo story, as guided by the teacher
  • performing an imagined event to entertain others
  • matching or sequencing pictures to create a story

  VCITC008 | Languages | Italian | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Communicating | Creating

• Modern Greek - F–10 Sequence: Levels 3 and 4 description

  Students begin to develop a metalanguage for understanding and discussing language features, and make connections and comparisons between English and Modern Greek. For example, they understand that in English there is one word for the definite article (‘the’), whereas in Greek the...

  Level description | Languages | Modern Greek | F–10 Sequence

• Spanish - F–10 Sequence: Foundation to Level 2 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 2, students interact with teachers and peers through action-related talk and play. They introduce themselves and exchange greetings such as Buenos días/tardes/noches, and farewells (for example, hasta pronto). They use simple repetitive language and respond to simple...

  Level description | Languages | Spanish | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2

• Victorian Aboriginal Languages: Foundation to Level 2 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 2, students interact with the teaching team and respected community members to talk about themselves and family, using familiar modelled language and gestures. They use appropriate protocols when interacting with respected community members and community speakers, such as appropriate...

  Level description | Languages | Victorian Aboriginal Languages | Foundation to Level 2

• VCIDC060

  Create bilingual texts in collaboration with others for the wider community

  Elaborations

  • creating bilingual texts, using subtitles and captions, to inform school community about aspects of Indonesian culture, (such as visiting an Indonesian home, shopping at a market, attending a ceremony, giving a gift)
  • producing public information texts in both Indonesian and English, such as promoting a concert, or an interview with a celebrity for a teen radio station
  • creating digital texts such as songs or dialogues with options for displaying in either Indonesian or English

  VCIDC060 | Languages | Indonesian | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Communicating | Translating

• VCITC010

  Create a personal or shared record of ‘interesting’ words in Italian

  Elaborations

  • collecting Italian and English words that are the same (for example, banana or similar, for example, pigiama
  • collecting Italian words used in English, for example, ciao, opera, pasta, spaghetti
  • creating a picture dictionary

  VCITC010 | Languages | Italian | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Communicating | Translating

• VCITC122

  Create imaginative texts to express experiences, ideas and emotions

  Elaborations

  • creating texts based on examples or models, for example, depictions of characters, children’s stories
  • creating texts to entertain others, expressing real and imagined experiences, ideas and emotions, for example, a rap about being young, a video about a fictional school, a cartoon about a real or fictitious hero, a short story about an inanimate object coming to life

  VCITC122 | Languages | Italian | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10 | Communicating | Creating

• VCITC042

  Interact in classroom activities and create shared class routines

  Elaborations

  • interacting in small groups in class routines, for example, Come si scrive? Di chi è questo/questa? È mio/mia. È di mio fratello
  • asking to receive things, for example, Per favore, dammi una penna blu. Per piacere, mi porti …? Sì/D’accordo/Non posso
  • asking the time, for example, Che ora è? Sono le … Quanto manca? 10 minuti.
  • asking where an event is taking place, for example, Dove si fa la festa? Dove si trova …? Dov’è …? In Italia/vicino/lontano/ al numero 6
  • participating in a class dis cussion on a theme, activity or experience, for example, La musica di … è più interessante di … Secondo me …

  VCITC042 | Languages | Italian | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6 | Communicating | Socialising

• VCITC067

  Create short bilingual texts such as captions, stories and commentaries

  Elaborations

  • creating bilingual resources such as glossaries, signage, recipes, children’s stories, factual reports, timelines or brochures, both individually and collaboratively
  • creating and presenting a bilingual oral history (possibly including fragments of dialects) of an older Italian person

  VCITC067 | Languages | Italian | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Communicating | Translating

• VCITC027

  Create short, simple imaginative texts for different audiences

  Elaborations

  • making up rhymes and nonsense phrases in playing with the Italian language
  • creating new versions of well-known songs by substituting the words, for example, Per fare un tavolo could become Per fare un cavolo, ci vuole …
  • making picture storybooks (including digital versions) with captions to share with younger students
  • creating a story based on a set of images (for example, Il papà si alza. Il papà mangia. Il papà parte); matching or sequencing a set of images
  • creating greeting cards, for example, Caro/Cara …; … Saluti da …

  VCITC027 | Languages | Italian | F–10 Sequence | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Creating

• VCITU052

  Use grammatical knowledge, to interpret and create meaning in Italian

  Elaborations

  • using both regular and irregular plural nouns, for example, un ginocchio/due ginocchia
  • using suffixes to modify Italian nouns and adjectives, for example, treno — trenino; casa — casetta; parola — parolaccia; bravo — bravissimo; fratello — fratellino; povero —poverino
  • recognising the imperative as a formulaic expression, for example, Dammi!
  • noticing adjective–noun agreement, for example, I bambini piccoli; Anna è alta ma Mario è basso
  • expressing positive and negative preferences using adverbs to intensify the meaning, for example, Mi piace molto la cioccolata; Non mi piace tanto ballare
  • expressing negation, for example, Non sono italiano. Non mi piace l’ insalata
  • formulating questions and requests, for example, Che ora è? Pronto, chi parla? Quando comincia la scuola? Dove andiamo stasera?
  • using ordinal numbers to sequence, for example, la seconda classe, la quinta, la terza aula
  • recognising the position of adverbs in sentences, for example, Non vado mai al cinema; Cammino lentamente
  • using present tense of regular, some irregular verbs, and immediate future tense to present situations and events for example, using avere, essere, stare, giocare, dormire, fare, leggere, scrivere, andare in sentences such as: Andrea va a casa alle sei. Anna ha due fratelli. Vado al cinema domani
  • using reflexive verbs and simple past tense as formulaic expressions, for example, Mi alzo alle sette. Sono andato/a al cinema
  • developing metalanguage to describe patterns, grammatical rules and variations in language structures

  VCITU052 | Languages | Italian | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6 | Understanding | Systems of language