Year 6 SyllabusTest
Year 6 Syllabus
Year Level Description
Year 6 Tamil: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Tamil language developed in Year 5 and focuses on extending students’ oral and written communication skills and their understanding of Tamil language and culture. Students gain greater independence and become more conscious of their peers and social context. As they gain a greater awareness of the world around them they also become more aware of the similarities and differences between Tamil language and culture and their own.
In Year 6, students communicate in Tamil, initiating interactions with their teacher and peers to exchange information and relate experiences about free time. They engage in individual and collaborative tasks with peers to plan events or activities to showcase their progress in learning and using Tamil. Students gather, compare and respond to information and supporting details from texts related to their personal and social worlds. They convey information, ideas and opinions, and use them in new ways. Students share and compare responses to imaginative texts. They create or reinterpret, present or perform alternative versions of imaginative texts for different audiences and to suit a variety of modes or contexts.
Students become more familiar with the systems of the Tamil language, developing greater fluency and accuracy in communication. They begin to use Tamil spontaneously when interacting with one another and their teacher, and use an increasing range of body language and gestures. Students write simple texts on familiar topics using Tamil letters and recognise some single letters and whole words in Tamil with the support of a chart. They generate language for purposeful interaction in spoken and written texts using context-related vocabulary and elements of grammar. Students build a metalanguage in Tamil to describe patterns, grammatical rules and variations in language structures.
Students understand that the Tamil language is constantly changing due to contact with other languages and the impact of new technologies and knowledge. They also understand that language and culture are integral to the nature of identity and communication.
In Year 6 students continue to widen their social networks, experiences and communication repertoires in both their first language and Tamil. They are encouraged to use Tamil as much as possible for interactions, structured learning tasks and language experimentation and practice.
Communicating
Socialising
Initiate interactions with teacher and peers orally and in writing to exchange information and relate experiences about free time; for example, நான் மாலை நேரத்தில் வீட்டுப் பாடங்களைச் செய்வேன். அத்துடன் காணொளி விளையாட்டு விளையாடுவேன்.;
நீங்கள் மாலை நேரத்தில் என்ன செய்வீர்கள்?/நீ மாலை நேரத்தில் என்ன செய்வாய்? சிற்றுண்டியகத்திற்கு போகலாமா?; வானிலை நன்றாக இருக்கும் போது நான் கடற்கரைக்குச் செல்வேன்.
Participate in routine exchanges to express feelings, opinions and personal preferences; for example, அவன் என் அண்ணன்.; அவன் நல்லவன்./அவர் என் அண்ணா.; அவர் நல்லவர். மன்னிக்கவும் ராதா.; ஆனால் ...; நான் நினைக்கிறேன் …; நான் நிச்சயமாக சம்மதிக்கவில்லை.
Engage in individual and collaborative tasks to plan events or activities to showcase their progress in learning and using Tamil, developing projects or budgeting for a shared event
Informing
Gather, compare and respond to information and supporting details from a range of written, spoken, digital and multimodal texts related to their personal and social worlds
Convey information, ideas and opinions related to their personal and social worlds, selecting appropriate written, spoken, digital and multimodal texts to suit specific audiences and contexts
Creating
Share and compare responses to characters, events and ideas and identify cultural elements in imaginative texts
Create or reinterpret, present or perform alternative versions of imaginative texts for different audiences, adapting stimulus, theme, characters, places, ideas and events to suit different modes or contexts
Translating
Translate and interpret short texts from Tamil to English and vice versa, recognising that words and meanings do not always correspond across languages and expanding descriptions or giving examples where necessary to assist meaning
Experiment with bilingual dictionaries and/or online translators, considering the relative advantages or limitations of each resource
Reflecting
Engage in intercultural experiences, describing aspects of language and culture that are unfamiliar and discussing their own reactions and adjustments; for example, Diwali or Deepavali celebrations
Understanding
Systems of language
Recognise and enunciate words, and combine these aspects to construct sentences; for example, இது ஒரு கறுப்புக் குதிரை.
Understand and write டகர வரிசை; for example, ட, டா, டி, டீ, டு, டூ, டெ, டே, டை, டொ, டோ, டௌ (Da letters), followed by ப வரிசை எழுத்துகள் and the subsequent letters.
Understand that the Grantha letters ஸ, ஹ, ஷ, க்ஷ, ௵, ஶ்ரீ are also used at times in the Tamil language; for example, கிருஷ்ணா, ஜெய், ஹரி (Krishna, Jey, Hari)
Generate language for a range of purposes in simple spoken and written texts by using context-related vocabulary and elements of the Tamil grammatical system, including:
- using adjectives to describe people, activities and things; for example, இந்த தோசை மிருதுவாகவும் சுவையாகவும் இருக்கிறது.
- comparing and evaluating using comparatives and superlatives; for example, எனக்கு தொலைக்காட்சி பார்ப்பதைவிட காற்பந்து விளையாடவே விருப்பம்.
- using adverbs to describe the frequency, quantity, and quality of verbs; for example, தினந்தோறும், அதிகமாக, மகிழ்ச்சியாக
- using prepositions; for example, முன்பு, பிறகு, இன்று, நேற்று, நாளை
- understanding the rules for past, present and future tenses and taking note of the use of tense marker to differentiate tenses; for example, ட், த், ற், கிறு, கின்று, வ், ப்; குடித்தான், குடிக்கின்றான், குடிப்பான்
- expressing reactions with exclamations; for example, எவ்வளவு அழகு!
- becoming aware of the Tamil subject-object-verb structure; for example, எனக்கு நாய்க்குட்டி விருப்பம்.
- using joining words and split words; for example, without change (இயல்புப்புணர்ச்சி) மலர்+மாலை= மலர்மாலை
with change (விகாரப்புணர்ச்சி)
திரை+படம்= திரைப்படம் - developing number knowledge for 81 to 100, one thousand, one hundred thousand and one million, ஆயிரம், பத்தாயிரம், இலட்சம் and reading numbers like ‘2022’ as இரண்டாயிரத்து இருபத்தி இரண்டு.
Build a metalanguage in Tamil to describe patterns, grammatical rules and variations in language structures
Understand how Tamil texts use language in ways that create different effects and suit different audiences
Language variation and change
Understand that the Tamil language is used differently in different contexts and situations
Role of language and culture
Understand that the Tamil language is constantly changing due to contact with other languages and to the impact of new technologies and knowledge
Understand that language and culture are integral to the nature of identity and communication
Achievement standard
At standard, students use familiar language when participating in, and sometimes initiating, spoken and written interactions to exchange information and relate experiences about free time. Students collaborate with peers in guided tasks to plan events or activities to showcase their progress in learning and using Tamil. They gather, compare and respond to most information and some supporting details from texts related to their personal and social worlds, and they convey simple information, ideas and opinions, selecting texts to suit audience and context. Students share and compare, with some guidance, responses to characters, events and ideas and identify several cultural elements in imaginative texts. They create or present, occasionally with guidance, simple alternative versions of imaginative texts, adapting elements for different modes or contexts. Students translate short texts from Tamil to English and vice versa, explaining or providing a description, with guidance, to some familiar words or expressions that do not directly translate between languages. Students experiment with and discuss the usefulness of various forms of dictionaries. They engage in intercultural experiences, describing some aspects of language and culture that are unfamiliar, and discuss their own reactions and adjustments.
Students are becoming more familiar with the Tamil sound and writing systems, with a satisfactory level of accuracy, using vocabulary and expressions related to experiences about free time, and applying knowledge of grammatical elements, in simple spoken and written texts. Students talk about how the Tamil language works, describing patterns, grammatical rules, and variations in language structures. They describe how Tamil texts use language in ways that create different effects and suit different audiences. Students explain how language and culture are integral to the nature of identity and communication.
Year Level Description
Year 6 Tamil: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required to communicate in the Tamil language developed in Year 5 and focuses on extending students’ oral and written communication skills and their understanding of Tamil language and culture. Students gain greater independence and become more conscious of their peers and social context. As they gain a greater awareness of the world around them they also become more aware of the similarities and differences between Tamil language and culture and their own.
In Year 6, students communicate in Tamil, initiating interactions with their teacher and peers to exchange information and relate experiences about free time. They engage in individual and collaborative tasks with peers to plan events or activities to showcase their progress in learning and using Tamil. Students gather, compare and respond to information and supporting details from texts related to their personal and social worlds. They convey information, ideas and opinions, and use them in new ways. Students share and compare responses to imaginative texts. They create or reinterpret, present or perform alternative versions of imaginative texts for different audiences and to suit a variety of modes or contexts.
Students become more familiar with the systems of the Tamil language, developing greater fluency and accuracy in communication. They begin to use Tamil spontaneously when interacting with one another and their teacher, and use an increasing range of body language and gestures. Students write simple texts on familiar topics using Tamil letters and recognise some single letters and whole words in Tamil with the support of a chart. They generate language for purposeful interaction in spoken and written texts using context-related vocabulary and elements of grammar. Students build a metalanguage in Tamil to describe patterns, grammatical rules and variations in language structures.
Students understand that the Tamil language is constantly changing due to contact with other languages and the impact of new technologies and knowledge. They also understand that language and culture are integral to the nature of identity and communication.
In Year 6 students continue to widen their social networks, experiences and communication repertoires in both their first language and Tamil. They are encouraged to use Tamil as much as possible for interactions, structured learning tasks and language experimentation and practice.