Year 4 SyllabusTest
Year 4 Syllabus
Year Level Description
Year 4 Hindi: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Hindi language developed in Year 3 and focuses on extending students’ oral and written communication skills.
In Year 4, students communicate in Hindi, interacting with their teacher and peers to exchange information about aspects of their personal worlds, including their daily routines at home and school, and their interests. They participate in individual and collaborative tasks that involve asking for help, clarification and permission, solving problems and sharing decisions. Students locate and process factual information in texts, and gather and convey information and short descriptions from familiar texts related to their personal and social worlds. They participate in and respond to a range of imaginative texts, discuss messages and make statements about characters or themes. Students create and perform short imaginative texts that allow for exploration and enjoyment of language and cultural expression, using familiar expressions and modelled language.
Students become familiar with the systems of the Hindi language, experimenting with the pronunciation of vowel sounds and intonation patterns. They notice and use context-related vocabulary and elements of grammar in simple spoken and written texts to generate language for purposeful interaction, such as using adjectives to describe qualities or characteristics, conjunctions to make compound sentences and the present, past and future tenses to indicate time. Students develop a metalanguage in Hindi for talking about language, using terms similar to those used in English.
Students understand that Hindi is an important global language and make connections between culture and language use.
In Year 4, students continue to be encouraged to use Hindi as much as possible for social interactions and in learning tasks.
Communicating
Socialising
Interact with teacher and peers orally and in writing to exchange information about aspects of their personal worlds, including their daily routines at home and school and their interests; for example,
मैं स्कूल ७ बजे जाता हूँ।; शनिवार को मैं ओडिसी नृत्य सीखती हूँ।; रविवार को हम सब फिल्म देखने जाते हैं।; मैं ६ बजे उठकर योग करती हूँ।; स्कूल से आने के बाद मैं संगीत सुनती हूँ।; मैं अभी स्कूल जा रहा हूँ, पर शाम को मैं क्रिकेट खेलने स्टेडियम जाऊँगा।
Participate in individual and collaborative tasks that involve asking for help, clarification and permission, solving problems and sharing decisions while creating a display or conducting a role play or scenario, science experiment, cooking or craft activity; for example, क्या मैं पुस्तक ले लूँ?; तुम्हारे स्कूल में खेलदिवस कब है?; उदिता क्या तुम घर के बाहर सुन्दर रंगोली बना सकती हो? अकबर और बीरबल का नाटक ठीक-ठाक हो गया; सबसे पहले कढ़ाही में तेल डालना है।
Informing
Locate and process factual information in a range of written, spoken, digital and multimodal texts related to their personal and social worlds
Gather and convey factual information, simple statements and short descriptions from familiar texts related to their personal and social worlds
Creating
Participate in and respond to imaginative texts, discussing messages and using modelled language to make statements about characters or themes
Create and perform short imaginative texts that allow for exploration and enjoyment of language, cultural expression and performance, using familiar expressions, simple statements and modelled language; for example, भाई की कलाई पर राखी बांधना
Translating
Translate words, phrases and expressions in simple texts, for example भुक्कड़ इल्ली The Very Hungry Caterpillar or the Hindi translation of The Gruffalo, to compare meanings and share understandings about aspects of language and culture that are different from English
Use visual, print or online dictionaries, word lists and pictures to translate simple familiar texts
Reflecting
Notice and describe how language reflects cultural practices and norms, including non-verbal gestures; for example, shaking one’s head to indicate yes or no; touching the feet of elders to seek their blessings; suffixing the names of people with जी to show respect
Understanding
Systems of language
Recognise different intonation for questions, statements and commands
Recognise and write high-frequency words and expressions in familiar contexts, such as classroom objects, such as पुस्तक; कंप्युटर; अलमारी, or items of clothing, such as साड़ी; पतलून; कुर्ता
Recognise how some Hindi words are borrowed from other languages including Portuguese, Arabic and Persian and could be pronounced and written with a dot below the letters; for example, क़, ज़, ख़, ग़, फ़, कागज़, लिफ़ाफ़ा
Understand how the pitch and stress can convey the meaning of even unfamiliar words
Begin to write compound sentences using conjunctions; for example, यह मिठाई बहुत स्वाद लग रही है, पर मुझे भूख नहीं है।
Generate language for a range of purposes in simple spoken and written texts by recognising and using context-related vocabulary and elements of the Hindi grammatical system, including:
- using adjectives to describe the qualities or characteristics of a person or object and noticing that they change with number and gender; for example, अच्छी लड़की; अच्छा लड़का; अच्छे बच्चे
- using conjunctions such as लेकिन; और; मगर to make compound sentences
- applying the knowledge of present, past and future tense in sentences; for example, मैं बुआ से मिलने दिल्ली गया था; मैं चाचा के साथ मुंबई जा रहा हूँ; मैं नानी के घर जाऊंगी
- using specific vocabulary related to important events and celebrations; for example, Diwali; Holi; Dussehra; Independence Day
- using suitable language while telling the time; for example, साढ़े सात बजे; चार बजकर दस मिनट; दो बजने में पाँच मिनट
- developing number knowledge for 40 to 60
Begin to develop a metalanguage in Hindi for talking about language, using terms similar to those used in English
Notice differences in familiar texts, such as personal, informative and imaginative texts, and explain how particular features of such texts help to achieve their purpose
Language variation and change
Understand that different ways of using the Hindi language reflect different regions and countries, different relationships and different ways of making meaning
Role of language and culture
Understand that Hindi is an important global language used by communities in many countries around the world and that it has connections with several other languages
Make connections between language use and culture by identifying vocabulary and expressions that reflect different cultural values, traditions or practices
Achievement standard
At standard, students use simple familiar language, with occasional guidance, when participating in spoken and written interactions, to exchange information about their daily routines at home and school, and their interests. They participate in most tasks that involve asking for help, clarification and permission, solving problems and sharing decisions. Students locate, process and convey some factual information and simple statements from familiar texts related to their personal and social worlds. They respond to imaginative texts, using modelled language, to make statements about characters or themes. Students create and perform short imaginative texts, using familiar expressions, simple statements and modelled language. They use dictionaries with guidance, word lists and pictures to translate simple familiar texts. Students share meanings and share understandings about aspects of Hindi language and Indian culture that are different from English.
Students become familiar with the Hindi sound and writing systems, with a satisfactory level of accuracy, using vocabulary and applying elements of grammar in simple spoken and written texts related to their daily routines at home and school and their interests. They begin to describe how the Hindi language works, using terms similar to those used in English with guidance. Students make some simple comparisons between features of familiar texts. They state that Hindi is an important global language and list connections with several other languages. Students make some connections between language and culture use by identifying vocabulary and expressions that reflect different cultural values, traditions or practices.
Year Level Description
Year 4 Hindi: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Hindi language developed in Year 3 and focuses on extending students’ oral and written communication skills.
In Year 4, students communicate in Hindi, interacting with their teacher and peers to exchange information about aspects of their personal worlds, including their daily routines at home and school, and their interests. They participate in individual and collaborative tasks that involve asking for help, clarification and permission, solving problems and sharing decisions. Students locate and process factual information in texts, and gather and convey information and short descriptions from familiar texts related to their personal and social worlds. They participate in and respond to a range of imaginative texts, discuss messages and make statements about characters or themes. Students create and perform short imaginative texts that allow for exploration and enjoyment of language and cultural expression, using familiar expressions and modelled language.
Students become familiar with the systems of the Hindi language, experimenting with the pronunciation of vowel sounds and intonation patterns. They notice and use context-related vocabulary and elements of grammar in simple spoken and written texts to generate language for purposeful interaction, such as using adjectives to describe qualities or characteristics, conjunctions to make compound sentences and the present, past and future tenses to indicate time. Students develop a metalanguage in Hindi for talking about language, using terms similar to those used in English.
Students understand that Hindi is an important global language and make connections between culture and language use.
In Year 4, students continue to be encouraged to use Hindi as much as possible for social interactions and in learning tasks.