Year 6 SyllabusTest
Year 6 Syllabus
Year Level Description
Year 6 Hindi: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Hindi language developed in Year 5 and focuses on extending students’ oral and written communication skills and their understanding of the Hindi language and Indian culture. Students gain greater independence and become more conscious of their peers and social context. As they gain a greater awareness of the world around them, they also become more aware of the similarities and differences between the Hindi language and Indian culture and their own.
In Year 6, students communicate in Hindi, initiating interactions with their teacher and peers to exchange information and relate experiences about free time. They engage in individual and collaborative tasks with peers to plan events or activities to showcase their progress in learning and using Hindi. Students gather, compare and respond to information and supporting details from texts related to their personal and social worlds. They convey information, ideas and opinions, and use them in new ways. Students share and compare responses to imaginative texts. They create or reinterpret, present or perform alternative versions of imaginative texts for different audiences and to suit a variety of modes or contexts.
Students become more familiar with the systems of the Hindi language, recognising that English loan words are pronounced differently and are written using the Devanagari script. They understand how the र sound can be written differently in various words. Students generate language for purposeful interaction in spoken and written texts using context-related vocabulary and elements of grammar, including using different verb tenses and conjunctions to write compound and complex sentences. They build a metalanguage in Hindi to describe patterns, grammatical rules and variations in language structures.
Students understand that the Hindi language is constantly changing due to contact with other languages and the impact of new technologies and knowledge. They also understand that language and culture are integral to the nature of identity and communication.
In Year 6, students continue to widen their social networks, experiences and communication repertoires in both their first language and Hindi. They are encouraged to use Hindi as much as possible for interactions, structured learning tasks and language experimentation and practice.
Communicating
Socialising
Initiate interactions with teacher and peers orally and in writing to exchange information and relate experiences about free time; for example, शाम को मैं स्कूल का काम करने के बाद विडिओ गेम खेलती हूँ।; तुम स्कूल के बाद क्या करते हो?; प्रतुल क्या तुम कुल्फ़ी खाने चलोगे?; जब मौसम अच्छा होता है तो मैं समुद्र के किनारे घूमने जाता हूँ।; शाम को कहीं घूमने चलें?
Participate in routine exchanges to express feelings, opinions and personal preferences; for example, आपने तो कमाल कर दिया।; मेरे विचार में स्कूल/ विध्यालय में प्रतिदिन राष्ट्रगान गाया जाना चाहिए।; मैं नहीं मानती कि घर का सारा काम माँ करें।; मैं आपके जन्मदिन पर ज़रूर आऊँगा।
Engage in individual and collaborative tasks to plan events or activities to showcase their progress in learning and using Hindi, developing projects or budgeting for a shared event; for example, आज हम आपके सामने प्रस्तुत करने जा रहे हैं...; बाल दिवस के अवसर पर हम…; राखी बनाने के लिए सबसे पहले…; सब काम समाप्त हो गया?; अभी नहीं हुआ, पर जल्दी हो जाएगा।; आप समझते हैं ना?; आप कितनी तेज़ी से लिख सकते हैं?; यह बहुत कठिन है।; इसमें मुझे क्या करना होगा?
Informing
Gather, compare and respond to information and supporting details from a range of written, spoken, digital and multimodal texts related to their personal and social worlds
Convey information, ideas and opinions related to their personal and social worlds, selecting appropriate written, spoken, digital and multimodal texts to suit specific audiences and contexts
Creating
Share and compare responses to characters, events and ideas, and identify cultural elements in imaginative texts
Create or reinterpret, present or perform alternative versions of imaginative texts for different audiences, adapting stimulus, theme, characters, places, ideas and events to suit different modes or contexts
Translating
Translate and interpret short texts from Hindi to English and vice versa, recognising that words and meanings do not always correspond across languages and expanding descriptions or giving examples where necessary to assist meaning
Experiment with bilingual dictionaries and/or online translators, considering the relative advantages and imitations of each resource
Reflecting
Engage in intercultural experiences, describing aspects of language and culture that are unfamiliar and discussing their own reactions and adjustments
Understanding
Systems of language
Recognise how loan English words are pronounced differently and are written using the Devanagari script; for example, अस्पताल, गिलास, बोतल, कप्तान, तकनीकी
Understand how the र sound can be written differently in different words; for example, वर्ष; प्रवीण; गृह
Continue to develop a bank of words related to the focus topic and practice writing them using different sentence structures
Generate language for a range of purposes in simple spoken and written texts by using context-related vocabulary and elements of the Hindi grammatical system, including:
- distinguishing between intonation patterns of statements, questions and exclamations
- distinguishing between questions and requests; for example, क्या मैं घर जा सकती हूँ?; कृपया मुझे घर जाने दीजिए।
- using different verb tenses such as past, present and future to demonstrate how actions completed at a particular time are described; for example,
मैं कल स्कूल गया था।; मैं स्कूल जाता हूँ।; मैं स्कूल जा रहा हूँ।; मैं कल स्कूल जाऊँगा। - using conjunctions to connect different parts of a sentence; for example, उसने खाना खाया और पढ़ने बैठ गई
- developing knowledge for 81 to 100, one thousand (हज़ार), hundred thousand (लाख) and one million (करोड़) and reading numbers like 1947 as उन्नीस सौ सैंतालीस।
Build a metalanguage in Hindi to describe patterns, grammatical rules and variations in language structures
Understand how Hindi texts use language in ways that create different effects and suit different audiences
Language variation and change
Understand and use Hindi language correctly in different contexts and situations
Recognise the dynamic nature of languages and cultures, and the changing and influential relationships that exist between languages
Role of language and culture
Understand that the Hindi language is constantly changing due to contact with other languages and to the impact of new technologies and knowledge
Understand that language and culture are integral to the nature of identity and communication
Achievement standard
At standard, students use familiar language when participating in, and sometimes initiating, spoken and written interactions to exchange information and relate experiences about free time. Students collaborate with peers in guided tasks to plan events or activities to showcase their progress in learning and using Hindi. They gather, compare and respond to most information and some supporting details from texts related to their personal and social worlds, and they convey simple information, ideas and opinions, selecting texts to suit audience and context. Students share and compare, with some guidance, responses to characters, events and ideas and identify several cultural elements in imaginative texts. They create or present, occasionally with guidance, simple alternative versions of imaginative texts, adapting elements for different modes or contexts. Students translate short texts from Hindi to English and vice versa, explaining or providing a description, with guidance, to some familiar words or expressions that do not directly translate between languages. Students experiment with and discuss the usefulness of various forms of dictionaries. They engage in intercultural experiences, describing some aspects of language and culture that are unfamiliar, and discuss their own reactions and adjustments.
Students are becoming more familiar with the Hindi sound and writing systems, with a satisfactory level of accuracy, using vocabulary and expressions related to experiences about free time, and applying knowledge of grammatical elements, in simple spoken and written texts. Students talk about how the Hindi language works, describing patterns, grammatical rules, and variations in language structures. They describe how Hindi texts use language in ways that create different effects and suit different audiences. Students explain how language and culture are integral to the nature of identity and communication.
Year Level Description
Year 6 Hindi: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Hindi language developed in Year 5 and focuses on extending students’ oral and written communication skills and their understanding of the Hindi language and Indian culture. Students gain greater independence and become more conscious of their peers and social context. As they gain a greater awareness of the world around them, they also become more aware of the similarities and differences between the Hindi language and Indian culture and their own.
In Year 6, students communicate in Hindi, initiating interactions with their teacher and peers to exchange information and relate experiences about free time. They engage in individual and collaborative tasks with peers to plan events or activities to showcase their progress in learning and using Hindi. Students gather, compare and respond to information and supporting details from texts related to their personal and social worlds. They convey information, ideas and opinions, and use them in new ways. Students share and compare responses to imaginative texts. They create or reinterpret, present or perform alternative versions of imaginative texts for different audiences and to suit a variety of modes or contexts.
Students become more familiar with the systems of the Hindi language, recognising that English loan words are pronounced differently and are written using the Devanagari script. They understand how the र sound can be written differently in various words. Students generate language for purposeful interaction in spoken and written texts using context-related vocabulary and elements of grammar, including using different verb tenses and conjunctions to write compound and complex sentences. They build a metalanguage in Hindi to describe patterns, grammatical rules and variations in language structures.
Students understand that the Hindi language is constantly changing due to contact with other languages and the impact of new technologies and knowledge. They also understand that language and culture are integral to the nature of identity and communication.
In Year 6, students continue to widen their social networks, experiences and communication repertoires in both their first language and Hindi. They are encouraged to use Hindi as much as possible for interactions, structured learning tasks and language experimentation and practice.