Experiment with the pronunciation of short and long single vowel and diphthong sounds, including ja, rot, singen, Sport, Winter, zwei

Recognise and use the Eszett and Umlaut to pronounce and write familiar German words

Experiment with intonation patterns

Use punctuation rules in German such as capital letters for nouns, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas and quotation marks

Recognise and write high-frequency words and expressions in familiar contexts
(ACLGEU131)

Notice and use context-related vocabulary and apply elements of grammar in simple spoken and written texts to generate language for a range of purposes, including:

• recognising the link between a noun’s gender and its definite/indefinite article and nominative pronoun in relation to people, for example, der Bruder, ein Bruder, er
• noticing that nominative and accusative indefinite articles denote an unspecified person or object, for example, Rotkäppchen hatte einen Korb
• using the possessive adjectives mein/e and dein/e or a form of haben and an indefinite article to express a relationship to a person, for example, Meine Schwester ist zehn Jahre alt; Ich habe einen Bruder
• comparing pluralisation of some nouns in German and English and using die for plural nouns in German, for example, der Apfel/die Äpfel
• describing a relationship using a possessive adjective, for example, mein/e, dein/e, sein/e, ihr/e
• understanding and using pronouns to refer to people, for example, ich, du, er, sie (singular); wir, ihr, sie (plural); Sie heißt Anna, Sie heißen Ben und Sarah
• using present tense forms of irregular verbs such as haben and sein and recognising similarities to the English verbs ‘to have’ and ‘to be’
• understanding and describing current and recurring actions using verbs such as essen, fliegen, fressen, laufen, leben,schwimmen, sprechen and trinken
• understanding the meaning of and using common time phrases and cohesive devices, for example, gestern, heute, dann and zuerst

Begin to develop a metalanguage in German for talking about language, using terms similar to those used in English
(ACLGEU132)

Recognise the particular language features and textual conventions in simple, familiar, spoken, written and multimodal German texts
(ACLGEU133)

Understand and demonstrate how language use varies according to the participants’ age, gender and relationship and the context of use
(ACLGEU134)

Notice differences between German, Australian and other cultures’ practices and how these are reflected in language
(ACLGEU136)