Communicating

Socialising

Interact orally with the teacher and peers, using simple modelled language and gestures to exchange information about themselves, the members of their family, their classmates and friends, for example, 我有弟弟,你呢?;我爱我的妈妈;她叫Anna;我的朋友叫Simon;她七岁;他喜欢黑色和绿色;
他有两只兔子

Follow simple instructions including, 排队;请坐; 合上书; 不要说话
(ACLCHC001)

Interact with simple written texts, including labelling images, copying characters from a provided list and sorting familiar and common Chinese characters according to their formation
(ACLCHC002)

Informing

Identify and convey key points of information using learnt key words and phrases to complete guided tasks in a range of simple spoken and visual texts, related to their personal worlds
(ACLCHC003)

Locate factual information about their personal worlds in texts and convey information using modelled language, visual and contextual cues
(ACLCHC004)

Creating

Participate in and respond to imaginative texts, acting out events, identifying and comparing favourite elements and making simple statements orally about characters or themes
(ACLCHC005)

Create short written imaginative texts using simple characters from charts and word lists, labels, captions and short sentences to describe characters or key events in planning a story
(ACLCHC006)

Translating

Identify equivalent or similar Chinese words, expressions or phrases for familiar objects or terms in English, to develop vocabulary
(ACLCHC007)

Reflecting

Notice aspects of Chinese language and culture that are ‘new’ or ‘interesting’

Observe how relationships influence language use and their own identity
(ACLCHC009)