Year 4 SyllabusTest
Year 4 Syllabus
Year Level Description
Year 4 Tamil: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Tamil language developed in Year 3 and focuses on extending students’ oral and written communication skills.
In Year 4, students communicate in Tamil, 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 Tamil language, experimenting with the pronunciation of vowel sounds combined with consonants. They recognise, trace and copy Tamil letters with straight and curved lines. They notice and use context-related vocabulary in simple spoken and written texts, and apply elements of grammar, such as the present tense, to generate language for purposeful interaction. Students develop a metalanguage in Tamil for talking about language, using terms similar to those used in English.
Students understand that Tamil is an important global language and make connections between culture and language use.
In Year 4, students continue to be encouraged to use Tamil 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, நான் காலை எட்டு மணிக்குப் பள்ளிக்குச் செல்வேன்.; நான் சனிக்கிழமை தோறும் குதிரைச் சவாரி செய்வேன் அத்துடன் ஞாயிற்றுக்கிழமை தோறும் வலைப்பந்து விளையாடுவேன்.; எனக்கு விளையாடவும் சுற்றுலா செல்லவும் விருப்பம் ஆனால் என் நண்பனுக்கு இசை மிகவும் விருப்பம்.
Participate in individual and collaborative tasks that involve asking for help, clarification and permission, solving problems and sharing decisions; for example,creating a display or conducting a role-play or scenario, science experiments, cooking or craft activities; for example, காகித கைவினைப் பொருட்கள் செய்வது/
வண்ணக் காகிதங்களால் மாலை செய்வது.
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
Translating
Translate words, phrases and expressions in simple texts, such as Tamil translations of மிகவும் பசியுள்ள கம்பளிப்பூச்சி, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and ஓர் ஈயை விழுங்கிய மூதாட்டி, The Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly, 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
Understanding
Systems of language
Recognise, reproduce and pronounce the Tamil consonants with short and long vowel sounds, such as இ, ஈ, உ, ஊ, ஐ, on their own and when combined with consonants; for example, கி, கீ, கு, கூ, கை
Understand the hard consonants and their conjunctions with soft consonants (இன எழுத்துகள்); for example, (ங்-க்) (ஞ்-ச்) (ண்-ட்) (ந்-த்) (ம்-ப்) (ன்-ற்)
Recognise, trace and copy Tamil characters with straight lines and curved lines; for example, கி, கீ, கு, கூ, கை
அடுத்த ஐந்து உயிரெழுத்துகளுடன் (இ, ஈ, உ, ஊ, ஐ) மெய் எழுத்துகளை இணைத்தல்
Form words using syllables of vowels and consonants; for example, இவர், சிங்கம், வீரம், ஆமை, உடல்
Generate language for a range of purposes in simple spoken and written texts by recognising and using context‑related vocabulary and elements of the Tamil grammatical system, including:
- using simple adjectives to describe places and objects; for example, சிறிய அலுவலகம், பச்சைப் பெட்டி
- using singular and plural forms, with their appropriate letter change; for, example, மரம் - மரங்கள்,
பல் - பற்கள் - telling the time on the hour; for example, நேற்று நான் காலை ஏழு மணிக்குப் பள்ளிக்குச் சென்றேன்.
- expressing time periods by using days of the week; for example, நான் திங்கட்கிழமை கூடைப்பந்து விளையாடுவேன்.
- describe the location of objects; for example, கீழே, உள்ளே, அருகில், பின்னால்
- seeking information using questions; for example, எப்போது? எங்கே? எங்கிருந்து?
- linking ideas using conjunctions; for example, ஆகையால், ஆனால், மற்றும், அத்துடன்
- understanding the rules for subject-object-verb sentence construction; for example, நான் தோசை சாப்பிட்டேன்.; and possessive word order; for example, என் தம்பியின் புத்தகம்.
- using past, present and future tenses and taking note of their different forms; for example, விளையாடினேன், விளையாடு
கிறேன்; விளையாடுவேன் - directing others using imperatives, such as கூடாது!, சீக்கிரம்!, கவனம்!, and inviting others using polite forms; for example, தயவு செய்து அமருங்கள்.
- developing number knowledge for 41 to 60
Begin to develop a metalanguage in Tamil for talking about language, using terms similar to those used in English
Notice differences in familiar texts, such aspersonal, 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 Tamil language reflect different regions and countries, different relationships and different ways of making meaning
Role of language and culture
Understand that Tamil 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 and culture use 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 understandings about aspects of Tamil language and culture that are different from English.
Students become familiar with the Tamil 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 Tamil 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 Tamil 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 Tamil: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Tamil language developed in Year 3 and focuses on extending students’ oral and written communication skills.
In Year 4, students communicate in Tamil, 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 Tamil language, experimenting with the pronunciation of vowel sounds combined with consonants. They recognise, trace and copy Tamil letters with straight and curved lines. They notice and use context-related vocabulary in simple spoken and written texts, and apply elements of grammar, such as the present tense, to generate language for purposeful interaction. Students develop a metalanguage in Tamil for talking about language, using terms similar to those used in English.
Students understand that Tamil is an important global language and make connections between culture and language use.
In Year 4, students continue to be encouraged to use Tamil as much as possible for social interactions and in learning tasks.