Year 2 SyllabusTest
Year 2 Syllabus
Year Level Description
Year 2 Tamil: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Tamil language developed in Year 1 and focuses on extending students’ oral communication skills.
In Year 2, students communicate in Tamil, 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 Tamil. 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 Tamil language, reproducing and pronouncing the sounds of spoken Tamil and noticing the sounds of short and long vowels. They notice and use context-related vocabulary and some first elements of grammar in simple spoken and written texts, such as describing people, animals, places and things using adjective-noun phrases, to generate language for purposeful interaction.
In Year 2, students recognise that all languages, including Tamil, change continuously over time through contact with each other and changes in society. They understand that Tamil speakers change how they use language in different situations and according to cultural norms.
Students learn Tamil 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, நான்
திங்கட்கிழமை இட்லி சாப்பிட்டேன்.; எனது பிறந்த நாள் மார்ச் 30.; பிறந்தநாள் வாழ்த்துகள், தைப்பொங்கல் வாழ்த்துகள், கிறிஸ்மஸ்/நத்தார் நல்வாழ்த்துகள்.; இன்று வானிலை நன்றாக இருக்கிறது.
Participate in guided collaborative tasks, transactions and games, taking turns, exchanging and negotiating, using simple language; for example, நான் திங்கட்கிழமை தோறும் வாழைப்பழம்/மாம்பழம்/திராட்சைப்பழம், ஆரஞ்சு/தோடம் பழம் சாப்பிடுவேன்.
Respond to teacher talk and instruction; for example, இது உங்களுடையதா/
உன்னுடையதா? ஆம் இது என்னுடையது.
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, simple statements and modelled language
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; for example,
ஒரு முறை, ஒரு நாள், ஓர் ஊரில்
Translating
Translate for others what they can express in Tamil, interpreting simple expressions and songs, and explaining how meanings are similar or different in English or other languages; for example, the words தொப்பி, பேனா, பென்சில் have similar meanings in most of the South Asian languages
Reflecting
Recognise similarities and differences between aspects of Tamil and Australian cultural practices and related language use
Understanding
Systems of language
Recognise, reproduce and pronounce the consonant sound; for example, ழ், க், ச், த், ந், ன், ண்
Recognise, reproduce and pronounce the Tamil consonants with short and long vowel sound; for example,
ழ, ழா, க, கா, ச, சா, த, தா, ந, நா, ன, னா, ண, ணா
Recognise, trace and copy Tamil characters with straight lines and curved lines; for example, ழ், ழ, ழா, க், க, கா, ச், ச, சா, த், த, தா, ந், ந, நா, ன், ன, னா, ண், ண, ணா
முதல் இரண்டு உயிரெழுத்துகளுடன் (அ, ஆ) மெய் எழுத்துகளை (ர், ழ், க், ச், த், ந்) இணைத்தல்.
Recognise that Tamil scripts have straight and curved lines; for example, அம்மா, மரம், காகம்
Forming words using syllables of vowels and consonants; for example, பழம், அக்கா, அண்ணா, நான்
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:
- beginning to describe quantity using cardinal numbers; for example, மூன்று நாற்காலிகள், இருபது மரங்கள்
- describing the characteristics of things using noun-adjective phrases for example, என் தந்தை உயரமானவர்.; என் அம்மா நகைச்சுவையானவர்.
- describing possession using word order in familiar phrases; for example, என் பேனா, என் பிறந்தநாள்
- referring to things using demonstratives; for example, இது பேனா.; அது பழம்.
- recognising and using different question words and anticipated answers; for example, யார்? எவ்வளவு? எங்கே? எப்போது?
- expressing negative responses; for example, இது சிவப்பு நிறப் புத்தகம் இல்லை.; அவன் ஓடவில்லை.
- using simple verbs to describe actions; for example, உட்கார்/
இரு, சாப்பிடு, குடி, விளையாடு - developing number knowledge for 21 to 30
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 Tamil speakers use language differently in different situations and according to cultural norms, such as when at home with the family or in the classroom
Role of language and culture
Recognise that all languages, including Tamil, 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil, and state how meanings are similar or different in English. Students recognise similarities and differences between cultural practices and related language use of Tamil speaking communities and of Australia.
Students become familiar with the Tamil 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 Tamil speakers use language differently in different situations, and between people, and some ways that the Tamil language has changed over time through its contact with other languages and changes in society.
Year Level Description
Year 2 Tamil: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Tamil language developed in Year 1 and focuses on extending students’ oral communication skills.
In Year 2, students communicate in Tamil, 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 Tamil. 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 Tamil language, reproducing and pronouncing the sounds of spoken Tamil and noticing the sounds of short and long vowels. They notice and use context-related vocabulary and some first elements of grammar in simple spoken and written texts, such as describing people, animals, places and things using adjective-noun phrases, to generate language for purposeful interaction.
In Year 2, students recognise that all languages, including Tamil, change continuously over time through contact with each other and changes in society. They understand that Tamil speakers change how they use language in different situations and according to cultural norms.
Students learn Tamil 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.