Year 1 SyllabusTest
Year 1 Syllabus
Year Level Description
Year 1 Tamil: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Tamil language developed in Pre-primary and focuses on extending students’ oral communication skills. Typically, the students’ only exposure to and experience of the Tamil language and culture is from their school learning environment.
In Year 1, students communicate in Tamil, interacting with their teacher and peers to share information about themselves, their age and where they live, and to talk about their favourite things. They participate in guided collaborative tasks using simple modelled language in songs, rhymes and games to support understanding and to convey meaning, or to respond to teacher talk and instruction in Tamil. Students locate key words and information in simple spoken and written texts about their personal worlds and convey factual information using pictures, familiar words and simple statements. They participate in listening to and viewing short imaginative texts and in the shared performance of imaginative texts.
Students become familiar with the systems of the Tamil language, recognising, reproducing and pronouncing the Tamil consonants with short and long vowels, and recognising that Tamil letters have straight and curved lines. They notice and use context‑related vocabulary and recognise some first elements of grammar in simple spoken and written texts to generate language for purposeful interaction.
In Year 1, students recognise that Australia is a multilingual society with speakers of many different languages, including Tamil, and that Tamil and English borrow words and expressions from each other. They recognise that in Tamil, as in English and other languages, there are different ways of greeting, addressing and interacting with people and that greetings vary according to the time of day or the occasion.
Students learn Tamil in the early years through rich language input. Regular opportunities to revisit, recycle and review and, continuous feedback, response and encouragement, assist students in the language learning process.
Communicating
Socialising
Interact with teacher and peers orally and in writing to share information about themselves, their age and where they live, and to talk about their favourite things; for example, எனக்கு ஆறு வயது.; நீங்கள் எங்கே வசிக்கிறீர்கள்?/நீ எங்கே வசிக்கிறாய்?; நான் டயனெல்லாவில் வசிக்கிறேன்.; எனக்கு விளையாட விருப்பம்.; எனக்கு தோசை மிகவும் விருப்பம்.; உங்களிடம்/ உன்னிடம் செல்லப் பிராணி இருக்கிறதா?; ஆம், என்னிடம் செல்லப்பிராணி இருக்கிறது.; எனக்கு நாய்க்குட்டி விருப்பம்.
Express gratitude, make requests and apologise when appropriate; for example, மன்னிக்கவும், தயவு செய்து, நன்றி
Participate in guided collaborative tasks, using simple modelled language in songs, rhymes, games, gestures and pictures to support understanding and to convey meaning; for example, கோழியம்மாவும் குஞ்சுகளும், சைமன் சொல்கிறான்...
Respond to teacher talk and instruction; for example, மன்னிக்கவும் ஆசிரியர். எனக்கு விளங்கவில்லை/புரியவில்லை.; தயவு செய்து பேனாவை எனக்கு /தாருங்கள்.; இதோ உங்கள்/உன் பேனா.; நன்றி.
Informing
Locate key words and information in simple spoken and written texts, such as charts, lists, labels and captions, rhymes and songs, related to their personal worlds
Convey factual information about their personal worlds using pictures, labels, captions, familiar words and simple statements
Creating
Participate in listening to and viewing short imaginative texts and responding through action, dance, singing, drawing and collaborative retelling
Participate in the shared performance of songs, rhymes and stories and the presentation of action stories using verbal and non-verbal forms of expression and modelled language; for example, சிங்கமும் சுண்டெலியும்
Translating
Share with others simple Tamil expressions, sounds and gestures, name familiar objects and use Tamil and/or English to conduct simple conversations
Reflecting
Notice ways of speaking in Tamil that appear different from their own ways and become aware of how voice, behaviour and body language may change when speaking Tamil
Understanding
Systems of language
Recognise, reproduce and pronounce the consonant sound; for example, ப், ட், ம், ர்
Recognise, reproduce and pronounce the Tamil consonants with short and long vowels; for example, ப்+அ=ப, ப்+ஆ=பா
ட, டா, ம, மா, ர, ரா
Recognise, trace and copy some Tamil characters with straight lines; for example, ப், ப, பா, ட், ட, டா, ம், ம, மா, ர், ர, ரா முதல் இரண்டு உயிரெழுத்துகளுடன் (அ, ஆ) மெய் எழுத்துகளை (ப், ட், ம்) இணைத்தல்.
Recognise that Tamil letters have straight and curved lines; for example, படம், என், நான், ஆம்
Recognise how names are written in Tamil by shaping playdough
Form words using syllables of vowels and consonants; for example, அம்மா, படம், மரம்
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 Tamil grammatical system, including:
- describing the colour, size and shape of objects using adjectives; for example, வட்டமான பந்து, மஞ்சள்
நிறப் பூ, சிவப்புப் பேனா - noticing that intensifiers such as மிகவும், அதிகமாக give emphasis to phrases and sentences
- beginning to locate events in time by using the months of the year and the seasons; for example, தை மாதம், குளிர்காலம்
- using conjunctions; for example மற்றும், ஆனால்; எனக்கு தோசை பிடிக்கும் ஆனால் இட்லிபிடிக்காது.
- expressing likes and dislikes; for example, பிடித்தது/ பிடிக்காதது;எனக்கு நீல நிறம் பிடிக்கும்.; எனக்கு பந்து விளையாட விருப்பம்.
- developing cardinal number knowledge for 11–20
Understand that language is organised as ‘text’ and that different types of texts have different features
Language variation and change
Recognise that Tamil speakers use language differently in different situations, such as when socialising with peers and friends or at home with the family
Role of language and culture
Recognise that Australia is a multilingual society with speakers of many different languages, including Tamil, and that Tamil and English borrow words and expressions from each other
Achievement standard
At standard, students use simple modelled language, gestures and other forms of expression, with occasional guidance, when participating in spoken and written interactions in Tamil, to share information about themselves, their age and where they live, and to talk about their likes and dislikes. They locate some key words and information in simple texts and convey some factual information about their personal worlds using verbal and non-verbal forms of expression. Students respond to short imaginative texts and participate in the shared performance of these texts using familiar verbal and non-verbal forms of expression and well-rehearsed modelled language. When translating, students use Tamil and/or English to share with others simple Tamil expressions, sounds and gestures and to name some familiar objects. They talk about how voice, behaviour and body language may change when speaking Tamil.
Students become familiar with the Tamil sound and writing systems, recognising simple vocabulary to identify and describe familiar animals, objects and environments, and using some first elements of grammar, with a satisfactory level of accuracy. They make some comments about how language is organised as ‘text’ and that different types of texts have different features. Students recognise that there are different ways of interacting with people in Tamil, and usually act accordingly. They recognise that Tamil is one of the many languages spoken in Australia and identify some words and expressions that Tamil and English borrow from each other.
Year Level Description
Year 1 Tamil: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Tamil language developed in Pre-primary and focuses on extending students’ oral communication skills. Typically, the students’ only exposure to and experience of the Tamil language and culture is from their school learning environment.
In Year 1, students communicate in Tamil, interacting with their teacher and peers to share information about themselves, their age and where they live, and to talk about their favourite things. They participate in guided collaborative tasks using simple modelled language in songs, rhymes and games to support understanding and to convey meaning, or to respond to teacher talk and instruction in Tamil. Students locate key words and information in simple spoken and written texts about their personal worlds and convey factual information using pictures, familiar words and simple statements. They participate in listening to and viewing short imaginative texts and in the shared performance of imaginative texts.
Students become familiar with the systems of the Tamil language, recognising, reproducing and pronouncing the Tamil consonants with short and long vowels, and recognising that Tamil letters have straight and curved lines. They notice and use context‑related vocabulary and recognise some first elements of grammar in simple spoken and written texts to generate language for purposeful interaction.
In Year 1, students recognise that Australia is a multilingual society with speakers of many different languages, including Tamil, and that Tamil and English borrow words and expressions from each other. They recognise that in Tamil, as in English and other languages, there are different ways of greeting, addressing and interacting with people and that greetings vary according to the time of day or the occasion.
Students learn Tamil in the early years through rich language input. Regular opportunities to revisit, recycle and review and, continuous feedback, response and encouragement, assist students in the language learning process.