Year 5 SyllabusTest
Year 5 Syllabus
Year Level Description
Year 5 Tamil: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Tamil language developed in Year 4 and focuses on extending students’ oral and written communication skills and their understanding of Tamil language and culture.
In Year 5, students communicate in Tamil, initiating interactions with their teacher and peers to exchange information about their home, neighbourhood and local community. They engage in collaborative tasks that involve planning outings, conducting events and completing transactions. Students gather, compare and convey information and supporting details and ideas from texts related to their personal and social worlds. They engage with imaginative texts, sharing responses to characters, events and ideas, and make connections with their own experience and feelings. Students create or reinterpret, present or perform imaginative texts for different audiences, based on or adapted from events, characters or settings.
Students become more familiar with the systems of the Tamil language. They read and write the 12 vowels and 18 consonants, and make vowel-consonant sounds that follow the pattern of sounds for all consonants of the Tamil language. Students use context-related vocabulary and elements of grammar in simple spoken and written texts to generate language for purposeful interaction, such as describing the location of homes. They build a metalanguage in Tamil to comment on vocabulary and grammar and describe patterns, grammatical rules and variations in language structures.
Students show understanding that there are different forms of spoken and written Tamil used in different contexts by different people. They are encouraged to reflect on how their own and others’ language use is shaped by and reflects communities’ ways of thinking and behaving, and may be differently interpreted by others.
In Year 5, students are widening their social networks, experiences and communication repertoires in both their first language and Tamil. They are supported to use Tamil as much as possible for classroom routines and interactions, structured learning tasks and language experimentation and practice. English is predominantly limited to use for discussion, clarification, explanation, analysis and reflection.
Communicating
Socialising
Initiate interactions with teacher and peers orally and in writing to exchange information about their home, neighbourhood and local community; for example, நான் கில்வட் தொகுதியில் ஒரு பழைய வீட்டில் வசிக்கிறேன்.; என் வீடு நதியின் அருகில் ஒரு பூங்காவின் பக்கத்தில் இருக்கிறது.; நான் வார இறுதி நாட்களில் என் நண்பர்களுடன் சிற்றுண்டியகதிற்குச் செல்வேன்.; நான் பள்ளிக்குப் பேருந்தில் செல்வேன்.; நாங்கள் சந்தைக்குப் போவோம்.; என் பள்ளியில் பெரிய நூலகமும் விளையாட்டுத்திடலும் இருக்கின்றன.; என் வீட்டின் பின்புறத்தில் நீச்சல் குளம் இருக்கிறது.
Engage in individual and collaborative tasks that involve organising displays, planning outings and conducting events, such as performances, or activities; for example, building models, and completing transactions in places such as a café or a market
Informing
Gather and compare information and supporting details from a range of written, spoken, digital and multimodal texts related to their personal and social worlds
Gather and convey information and ideas in different formats from a range of texts related to their personal and social worlds
Creating
Share responses to characters, events and ideas in imaginative texts, such as stories, dialogues, cartoons, television programs or films, and make connections with their own experience and feelings
Create or reinterpret, present or perform imaginative texts for different audiences, based on or adapted from events, characters or settings
Translating
Translate simple texts from Tamil to English and vice versa, noticing which words or phrases require interpretation or explanation
Use visual, print or online dictionaries, word lists and pictures to translate short, familiar texts
Reflecting
Compare ways of communicating in English- and Tamil-speaking contexts and identify ways in which culture influences language use
Understanding
Systems of language
Recognise that the 12 vowels and the 18 consonants combine to make vowel-consonant sounds that follow the pattern of sounds for all consonants of the Tamil alphabet; for example, கெ, கே, கொ, கோ, கௌ
Recognise the specific sound difference between consonants and the correct pronunciation of the same to avoid distorting the meaning of the word (மயங்கொலிகள்); for example, வாணம், வானம், பணி, பனி
Understand that vowels and consonants combine to make composite letters; for example, கெ, கே, கொ, கோ, கௌ
அடுத்த ஐந்து உயிரெழுத்துகளுடன் (எ, ஏ, ஒ, ஓ, ஒள) மெய் எழுத்துகளை இணைத்தல்
Recognise and identify that the 18 consonants combined with the 12 vowels and an Ayutha or soul letter (ஃ ) combine to make the 247 characters in the Tamil language
Form words using syllables of vowels and consonants; for example, எட்டு, பெயர், கொக்கு, கோழி, ஒளவையார்
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:
- describing objects in the noun groups (common, specific and collective); for example, கிழமை, புதன்கிழமை, கூட்டம்
- describing people/objects in the domain (rational, irrational); for example, நண்பன், பூனை
- referring to people and things using pronouns such as personal, proximate, remote, possessive; for example, நான், எனது, அந்த, இங்கே, நாங்கள்
- using masculine, feminine, common, neuter singular and neuter plural forms of nouns; for example, சகோதரன், சகோதரி, சகோதரர், முயல், முயல்கள்
- observing the relationship between gender and verb endings; for example, அவன் எழுதுகிறான், அவள் எழுதுகிறாள், நாங்கள் எழுதுகிறோம்.
- seeking information and explanation indicating location using prepositions to expand on spoken or written interactions; for example, மேலே, உள்ளே, அங்கிருந்து, அங்கே
- creating cohesion using prepositions; for example, பிறகு, முன்பு; நான் காலை உணவுக்குப் பிறகு என் தங்கையோடு பள்ளிக்குச் செல்வேன்.
- using antonyms, such as உள்ளே - வெளியேமேலே - கீழே
- using question words, such as யாருடன்? எதற்கு? எதில்?
- developing number knowledge for 61 to 80, and using a dozen, a decade, and a century
Build a metalanguage in Tamil to comment on vocabulary and grammar, and describe patterns, grammatical rules and variations in language structures
Recognise that spoken, written and multimodal Tamil texts have certain conventions and can take different forms depending on the context in which they are produced
Language variation and change
Understand that there are variations in Tamil as it is used in different contexts by different people; for example,formal/informal register and regional variations
Role of language and culture
Understand that there are different forms of spoken and written Tamil used in different contexts within Tamil Nadu and in other regions of the world
Reflect on how their own and others’ language use is shaped by and reflects communities’ ways of thinking and behaving and may be differently interpreted by others
Achievement standard
At standard, students use familiar language when participating in spoken and written interactions, to exchange information about their home, neighbourhood and local community. They use mostly familiar language to participate in tasks that involve planning outings and conducting events. Students gather and compare information and supporting details, and convey information and ideas in different formats from texts related to their personal and social worlds. They share simple responses to characters, events and ideas in imaginative texts and make simple connections with their own experiences. They create and present, with guidance, imaginative texts for different audiences, based on or adapted from events, characters or settings. Students translate simple texts from Tamil to English and vice versa, showing some awareness that there are words or phrases that require interpretation or explanation. They use dictionaries, word lists and pictures to translate short familiar texts. Students identify ways in which culture influences language use and provide simple examples when comparing ways of communicating in Australian and Tamil speaking contexts.
Students become familiar with the Tamil sound and writing systems, with a satisfactory level of accuracy, using a range of vocabulary and developing and applying knowledge of grammatical elements in simple spoken and written texts related to their home, neighbourhood and local community. Students talk about how the Tamil language works, with guidance. They identify that texts have certain conventions and can take different forms. They explain that the differences in how people use Tamil may be due to differences in register and regional variations. Students discuss how their own and others’ language use is shaped by and reflects communities’ ways of thinking and behaving and may be differently interpreted by others.
Year Level Description
Year 5 Tamil: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Tamil language developed in Year 4 and focuses on extending students’ oral and written communication skills and their understanding of Tamil language and culture.
In Year 5, students communicate in Tamil, initiating interactions with their teacher and peers to exchange information about their home, neighbourhood and local community. They engage in collaborative tasks that involve planning outings, conducting events and completing transactions. Students gather, compare and convey information and supporting details and ideas from texts related to their personal and social worlds. They engage with imaginative texts, sharing responses to characters, events and ideas, and make connections with their own experience and feelings. Students create or reinterpret, present or perform imaginative texts for different audiences, based on or adapted from events, characters or settings.
Students become more familiar with the systems of the Tamil language. They read and write the 12 vowels and 18 consonants, and make vowel-consonant sounds that follow the pattern of sounds for all consonants of the Tamil language. Students use context-related vocabulary and elements of grammar in simple spoken and written texts to generate language for purposeful interaction, such as describing the location of homes. They build a metalanguage in Tamil to comment on vocabulary and grammar and describe patterns, grammatical rules and variations in language structures.
Students show understanding that there are different forms of spoken and written Tamil used in different contexts by different people. They are encouraged to reflect on how their own and others’ language use is shaped by and reflects communities’ ways of thinking and behaving, and may be differently interpreted by others.
In Year 5, students are widening their social networks, experiences and communication repertoires in both their first language and Tamil. They are supported to use Tamil as much as possible for classroom routines and interactions, structured learning tasks and language experimentation and practice. English is predominantly limited to use for discussion, clarification, explanation, analysis and reflection.