Use Pinyin to record the sound of phrases or sentences with greater accuracy
(ACLCHU042)

Apply knowledge of character to learn to read and write new characters and develop strategies for learning, for example, making connections between characters with a common component
(你、他、们)
(ACLCHU043)

Use context-related vocabulary in simple spoken and written texts to generate language for a range of purposes

Recognise and use grammatical features to form sentences to express details such as the time, place and manner of an action and to sequence ideas, including:

• comparing the use of tenses in English and Chinese, for example, how future tense is often expressed through time phrases in Chinese, for example, 我明天去北京;下个星期去上海
• identifying the use of adverbial phrases and extending understanding of sentence structure using subject–time–place–manner–verb–object, for example, 我星期一上学;我在澳大利亚上学;
  我走路上学
• examining the clauses of a sentence in Chinese and noticing how they are linked coherently, for example, 他叫王晓明,是我的朋友 (i.e. no subject/pronoun)
• applying processes of discourse development, including joining (也、和), contrasting (但是) and sequencing (就) information

Continue to build a metalanguage for Chinese to describe patterns, grammatical rules and variations in language structures
(ACLCHU044)

Notice how the features and conventions of text organisation vary according to audience, purpose and context, for example, digital, online or face to face
(ACLCHU045)