Recognise and reproduce the sounds and rhythms of spoken German, developing familiarity with the German alphabet and sound-letter correspondence, for example, through singing das Alphabetlied or playing games such as Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst
(ACLGEU114)

Notice and use context-related vocabulary and some first elements of grammar to generate language for a range of purposes, including:

• noticing that German has multiple words for ‘the’ and ‘a/an’
• using the possessive adjectives mein/e and dein/e or a form of haben and an indefinite article to express a relationship to an object, for example, Das ist mein Bleistift
• gaining awareness of terms referring to quantities of people and things, including cardinal numbers 0–20 and mehr and weniger
• understanding and using some question words and the intended/related answer in limited contexts, including was (an object), wer (a person), wie (manner) and wie viele (quantity)
• using simple modelled questions and statements
• negating verbs and adjectives using nicht
  (ACLGEU115)

Understand that language is organised as ‘text’ and that different types of texts have different features
(ACLGEU116)