Year 2 SyllabusTest
Year 2 Syllabus
Year Level Description
Year 2 Hindi: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Hindi language developed in Year 1 and focuses on extending students’ oral communication skills.
In Year 2, students communicate in Hindi, interacting with their teacher and peers in routine exchanges, such as asking each other how they are, offering wishes and sharing information about events in the day and over the year. They participate in guided collaborative tasks, taking turns, exchanging and negotiating, or responding to teacher talk and instruction in Hindi. Students identify specific points of information from familiar types of simple texts to complete guided tasks and convey factual information about their personal worlds. They participate in listening to, viewing and reading imaginative texts, and create stories and perform imaginative scenarios.
Students become familiar with the systems of the Hindi language, recognising and reproducing the sounds and rhythms of spoken Hindi. They recognise and begin to write high-frequency words and expressions in familiar contexts. Students notice and use context-related vocabulary and some first elements of grammar in simple spoken and written texts, such as tenses and gender, and begin to spell simple, high-frequency words using matras to generate language for purposeful interaction.
In Year 2, students recognise that all languages, including Hindi, change continuously over time through contact with each other and changes in society. They understand that Hindi speakers change how they use language in different situations and according to cultural norms.
Students learn Hindi in the early years through rich language input. At this stage, play and imaginative activities, music, movement and familiar routines, along with continuous feedback and opportunities to revisit, recycle and review, provide the essential scaffolding to assist students in the language learning process.
Communicating
Socialising
Interact with teacher and peers orally and in writing to participate in routine exchanges, asking each other how they are and offering wishes, and to share information about events in the day and over the year; for example, सुप्रभात गुरुजी; मेरा जन्मदिन ४ जनवरी को है।; दिवाली की शुभकामनाँए!; नया साल मुबारक!; जन्मदिन की बधाई!; आपका स्वागत है।; तुम्हें कौनसा जानवर ज्यादा पसंद है?; चिड़ियाघर में शेर, भालू, और गैंडा भी हैं।; दिल्ली में मौसम कैसा है?; आज बहुत गर्मी है।
Participate in guided collaborative tasks, transactions and games, taking turns, exchanging and negotiating, using simple language; for example, participating in traditional Indian games such as खो-खो; पिट्ठू; पोशम पा and using appropriate language while playing, like पकड़ो; फेंको; शाबाश; अच्छा खेला; अब किसकी बारी?; अगर तुम मुझे नीली गेंद दो तो मैं तुम्हें एक पीली गेंद दूँगी।; मैं नहीं खेलूँगी क्योंकि मेरे पास बैट नहीं है।
Respond to teacher talk and instruction; for example, क्या यह तुम्हारा/ आपका है?; जी हाँ यह मेरा है; आध्यापिकाजी मुझे समझ नहीं आया।
Informing
Identify specific points of information from familiar types of simple spoken, written or digital texts to complete guided tasks related to their personal worlds
Convey factual information about their personal worlds using familiar words, phrases and simple statements
Creating
Participate in listening to, viewing and reading imaginative texts and responding through action, performance, shared reading and collaborative retelling
Create stories and perform imaginative scenarios through role play, mime, drawing, oral discussion or scaffolded writing activities, using familiar words and modelled language
Translating
Translate for others what they can express in Hindi, interpreting simple expressions and songs, and explaining how meanings are similar or different in English or other languages
Reflecting
Recognise similarities and differences between aspects of Hindi and Australian cultural practices, and related language use
Understanding
Systems of language
Recognise that matras are another form of the long and short vowels
Reproduce the sound of the vowels with consonants; for example, का, कि; की; कु; कू; के; कै; को; कौ; कं
Recognise and reproduce pronunciation conventions, making connections between Hindi and English sounds including blends; for example,
च (ch); श (sh); थ (th)
Recognise the placement of Hindi letters below the line, in contrast to English letters written on the lines
Begin writing Hindi words, joining letters with the line on top
Begin to spell simple, high-frequency words using matras; for example, घास; मोटर; केला
Generate language for a range of purposes in simple spoken and written texts by noticing and using context-related vocabulary and some first elements of the Hindi grammatical system, including:
- using words to ask questions; for example, कौन आया है?; तुम कहाँ रहते हो?; पंकज भैया कब आएंगे?; दीदी स्कूल कैसे जाती हैं?
- understanding the use of past, present and future tense to write simple sentences; for example, आज तुम जलेबी खाओ; कल मैं लड्डू खाऊँगा
- observing the relationship between gender and verb endings; for example, लड़का लिखता है; लड़की लिखती है; हम लिखते हैं
- using singular and plural masculine and feminine forms of nouns; for example, घोड़ा; घोड़ी, घोड़े; घोड़ियाँ; लीची; लीचियाँ
- beginning to describe quantity using cardinal numbers; for example, तीन कुर्सियाँ; बीस पेड़
- locating events in time by using the days of the week
- developing number knowledge for 21 to 31
Understand that language is organised as ‘text’ that takes different forms and uses different structures and features to achieve its purpose
Language variation and change
Understand that Hindi speakers use language differently in different situations and according to cultural norms, such as when at home with family or in the classroom
Role of language and culture
Recognise that all languages, including Hindi, change continuously over time through contact with each other and through changes in society
Achievement standard
At standard, students use simple modelled language when participating in spoken and written routine exchanges in Hindi, to share information about how they are, offer wishes and talk about events in the day and over the year. Students identify some specific points of information in simple texts to mostly complete guided tasks, and they make use of familiar words and phrases, simple statements and modelled language, to convey factual information about their personal worlds. They listen to, view and read imaginative texts and respond in some detail using simple verbal and non-verbal forms of expression and some modelled language. Students create stories and perform imaginative scenarios, using familiar words and modelled language. They translate for others some of what they can express in Hindi, and state how meanings are similar or different in English. Students recognise similarities and differences between cultural practices and related language use of Hindi-speaking communities and of Australia.
Students become familiar with the Hindi sound and writing systems, with a satisfactory level of accuracy, using words and expressions to convey factual information at word and simple sentence level, and some first elements of grammar to write simple texts. They identify some different forms of texts that use different structures and features to achieve their purpose. Students identify some ways Hindi speakers use language differently in different situations, and between people, and some ways that the Hindi language has changed over time through its contact with other languages and changes in society.
Year Level Description
Year 2 Hindi: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Hindi language developed in Year 1 and focuses on extending students’ oral communication skills.
In Year 2, students communicate in Hindi, interacting with their teacher and peers in routine exchanges, such as asking each other how they are, offering wishes and sharing information about events in the day and over the year. They participate in guided collaborative tasks, taking turns, exchanging and negotiating, or responding to teacher talk and instruction in Hindi. Students identify specific points of information from familiar types of simple texts to complete guided tasks and convey factual information about their personal worlds. They participate in listening to, viewing and reading imaginative texts, and create stories and perform imaginative scenarios.
Students become familiar with the systems of the Hindi language, recognising and reproducing the sounds and rhythms of spoken Hindi. They recognise and begin to write high-frequency words and expressions in familiar contexts. Students notice and use context-related vocabulary and some first elements of grammar in simple spoken and written texts, such as tenses and gender, and begin to spell simple, high-frequency words using matras to generate language for purposeful interaction.
In Year 2, students recognise that all languages, including Hindi, change continuously over time through contact with each other and changes in society. They understand that Hindi speakers change how they use language in different situations and according to cultural norms.
Students learn Hindi in the early years through rich language input. At this stage, play and imaginative activities, music, movement and familiar routines, along with continuous feedback and opportunities to revisit, recycle and review, provide the essential scaffolding to assist students in the language learning process.