Year 3 SyllabusTest
Year 3 Syllabus
Year Level Description
Year 3 Tamil: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Tamil language developed in Year 2 and focuses on extending students’ oral and written communication skills. Students benefit from varied, activity-based learning that builds on their interests and capabilities and makes connections with other areas of learning.
In Year 3, students communicate in Tamil, interacting with their teacher and peers to exchange information about friends and family members. They participate in individual and collaborative tasks that involve following instructions, asking questions and making statements. Students locate specific points of information in a range of short texts and convey factual information about their personal worlds in simple statements, short descriptions and modelled texts. They participate in and respond to imaginative texts, identifying and comparing favourite elements and making simple statements about characters or themes. Students create and perform short imaginative texts that use familiar expressions and modelled language as well as simple visual supports.
Students become familiar with the systems of the Tamil language, experimenting with the pronunciation of short and long vowel sounds alone and when combined with consonants. They recognise, trace and copy Tamil characters with straight and curved lines. Students notice and use context-related vocabulary and elements of grammar in simple spoken and written texts, such as the relationship between subject pronouns and verb endings and an increasing range of adjectives, to generate language for purposeful interaction. They begin to develop a metalanguage in Tamil for talking about language, using terms similar to those used in English.
Students understand and demonstrate how language use varies according to the participants’ identity and context of use. They notice differences between Tamil, Australian and other cultures’ practices and how these are reflected in language.
In Year 3, students require extensive support with their language learning. Tasks are carefully scaffolded, and models and examples are provided, along with support for self-monitoring and reflection. Students are encouraged to use Tamil as much as possible for classroom routines and social interactions, and in learning tasks.
Communicating
Socialising
Interact with teacher and peers orally and in writing to exchange information about friends and family members; for example, எனக்கு இரண்டு சகோதரிகளும் ஒரு சகோதரனும் இருக்கின்றனர்.; என் சகோதரன் பெயர் அகிலன்.; எனது தோழிமாலதி மிகவும் அழகானவள்.; அவளுக்கு ஆறு வயது.; என் தாத்தா மிகவும் நல்லவர்.
Participate in routine exchanges, such as asking each other how they are; for example, வணக்கம் (மாணவர் பெயர்).; எப்படி இருக்கிறீர்கள்?/ இருக்கிறாய்?; நான் நலமாக இருக்கிறேன்.; நீங்கள் எப்படி இருக்கிறீர்கள்?/நீ எப்படி இருக்கிறாய்?; வணக்கம் அப்பா/ நண்பர்களே.; நாளை மீண்டும் சந்திப்போம்.; இரவு வணக்கம்
Participate in individual and collaborative tasks that involve following instructions, asking questions and making statements, and asking for help and permission; for example, நான் கழிவறைக்கு போகலாமா?; தயவு செய்து எனக்கு உதவி செய்ய முடியுமா?; எனக்கு உதவி தேவைப்படுகிறது.
Informing
Locate specific points of information in a range of short written, spoken, multimodal and digital texts related to their personal worlds
Convey factual information about their personal worlds using simple statements, short descriptions and modelled texts
Creating
Participate in and respond to imaginative texts, acting out events, identifying and comparing favourite elements and making simple statements about characters or themes
Create and perform short imaginative texts that use familiar expressions and modelled language as well as simple visual supports
Translating
Translate words and expressions in simple texts, such ascaptions, story titles or recurring lines in a story, noticing which ones are difficult to interpret
Reflecting
Notice what looks or feels similar or different to their own language and culture when interacting in Tamil; for example, gestures such as standing up for elders and joining both palms to say Vanakkam
Understanding
Systems of language
Recognise, reproduce and pronounce the consonant sound; for example, வ், ய், ல், ள், ங், ஞ், ற்
Recognise, reproduce and pronounce the Tamil consonants with short and long vowel sound; for example, வ, வா, ய, யா, ல, லா, ள, ளா, ங, ஙா, ஞ, ஞா, ற, றா
Recognise, trace and copy Tamil characters with straight lines and curved lines; for example, வ், வ, வா, ய், ய, யா, ல், ல, லா, ள், ள, ளா, ங், ங, ஙா, ஞ், ஞ, ஞா, ற், ற, றா
முதல் இரண்டு உயிரெழுத்துகளுடன் (அ, ஆ) மெய் எழுத்துகளை(ண், ன், வ், ய், ல், ள், ங், ஞ், ற்) இணைத்தல்.
Form words using syllables of vowels and consonants; for example, வட்டம், யார், பல், நாள்
Generate language for a range of purposes in simple spoken and written texts by noticing and using context‑related vocabulary and elements of the Tamil grammatical system, including:
- describing people and animals using subject pronouns, gender and adjectives; for example, அவன், அவள், அவர், அது; அண்ண்ன், அக்கா,தம்பி, தங்கை
என் நண்பன் மிகவும் நல்லவன். - expressing quantity using cardinal numbers, such as நாற்பது, ஐம்பது, நூறு, முந்நூறு, and ordinal numbers, such as நாற்பதாவது, ஐம்பதாவது
- describing objects in the singular and plural forms; for example, பெட்டி - பெட்டிகள்கதவு - கதவுகள்பந்து - பந்துகள்
- using pronouns such as உனக்கு, உனக்காக to refer to relationships between people and things; for example, நாங்கள் காற்பந்து விளையாட புதிய காலணிகள் வாங்கினோம்.
- using imperatives; for example, கையை உயர்த்துங்கள்/ உயர்த்து!, புத்தகத்தைத் திறவுங்கள்!/ திற!
- giving praise, gratitude and encouragement; for example, நன்று, மிக நன்று, மீண்டும் முயற்சி செய், நன்றி, மிக்க நன்றி
- recognising that the same rules of punctuation apply as in English, for example using full stops, commas, question marks and exclamation marks
- developing number knowledge for 31 to 40
Begin to develop a metalanguage in Tamil for talking about language, using terms similar to those used in English
Recognise the particular language features and textual conventions in simple, familiar, spoken, written and multimodal Tamil texts
Language variation and change
Understand and demonstrate how language use varies according to the participants’ age, gender and relationship and the context of use
Role of language and culture
Notice differences between Tamil, Australian and other cultures’ practices and how these are reflected in language
Achievement standard
At standard, students use simple modelled language, when participating in spoken and written interactions, to exchange information about friends and family members. Students locate specific points of information in short texts and convey factual information about their personal worlds with simple statements, short descriptions and modelled texts. They participate in and respond to imaginative texts, acting out events, identifying and comparing favourite elements and making simple statements about characters or theme. Students create and perform short imaginative texts that use modelled language as well as simple visual supports. They translate words and expressions in simple texts, including English words that have been incorporated into Tamil language, with a satisfactory level of accuracy. When interacting in Tamil, students talk about what looks or feels similar to or different from their own language and culture.
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 begin to describe, with guidance, how the Tamil language works, using terms similar to those used in English, and apply some of the language features and textual conventions in simple and familiar Tamil texts. Students show how language use varies according to the participants’ age, gender and relationship and the context of use. They talk about the differences between Tamil, Australian and other cultures’ practices and how these are reflected in language.
Year Level Description
Year 3 Tamil: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Tamil language developed in Year 2 and focuses on extending students’ oral and written communication skills. Students benefit from varied, activity-based learning that builds on their interests and capabilities and makes connections with other areas of learning.
In Year 3, students communicate in Tamil, interacting with their teacher and peers to exchange information about friends and family members. They participate in individual and collaborative tasks that involve following instructions, asking questions and making statements. Students locate specific points of information in a range of short texts and convey factual information about their personal worlds in simple statements, short descriptions and modelled texts. They participate in and respond to imaginative texts, identifying and comparing favourite elements and making simple statements about characters or themes. Students create and perform short imaginative texts that use familiar expressions and modelled language as well as simple visual supports.
Students become familiar with the systems of the Tamil language, experimenting with the pronunciation of short and long vowel sounds alone and when combined with consonants. They recognise, trace and copy Tamil characters with straight and curved lines. Students notice and use context-related vocabulary and elements of grammar in simple spoken and written texts, such as the relationship between subject pronouns and verb endings and an increasing range of adjectives, to generate language for purposeful interaction. They begin to develop a metalanguage in Tamil for talking about language, using terms similar to those used in English.
Students understand and demonstrate how language use varies according to the participants’ identity and context of use. They notice differences between Tamil, Australian and other cultures’ practices and how these are reflected in language.
In Year 3, students require extensive support with their language learning. Tasks are carefully scaffolded, and models and examples are provided, along with support for self-monitoring and reflection. Students are encouraged to use Tamil as much as possible for classroom routines and social interactions, and in learning tasks.