10–16 The individual: My neighbourhood Students discuss and describe: their local neighbourhood – people and places events in their neighbourhood – social and sporting. Task 4: Written communication (Week 10) Task 5: Externally set task (Week 13) Task 6: Oral communication (Week 16) Task 7: Response: Listening (Week 16) Text types and textual conventions announcement, blog, conversation, description, letter, poster Linguistic resources Vocabulary and structures related to My neighbourhood Sound and writing systems Consolidation of sound and writing systems. Intercultural understandings relation to one’s neighbourhood (physical environment) Australian concept of neighbourhood and community versus Chinese family and what occurs in one’s neighbourhood Language learning and communication strategies manipulating known language to create different meaning listening for key words Linguistic resources Grammar Adverbs Aspects durative – progressive experiential Comparison Constructions Prepositions Semester 2 – Unit 4 – (Travel – let’s go!) Week Context and topic Key teaching points
6–11 The individual: Destination Students reflect on and discuss: their travel experiences – holiday destinations and experiences planning a trip to China – visiting Chinese cities of Beijing and Hangzhou, famous places, food and customs. Task 10: Response: Listening (Week 9) Task 11: Oral communication (Week 11) Text types and textual conventions itinerary, conversation, description, speech Linguistic resources Vocabulary and structures related to Destination China Sound and writing systems all sound units: aspirated and unaspirated tones pronunciation and intonation Intercultural understandings discuss China’s increasing popularity as a travel destination compare study/work and holiday time allocation in China and Australia explore communication, and social etiquette for visitors to China discuss coping with daily life situations while travelling in China explore shopping, bargaining and tipping customs in China Language learning and communication strategies seeking opportunities to practise the language using a bilingual dictionary to check characters and Pinyin developing strategies for using dictionaries Linguistic resources Grammar Adverbs Conjunctions Constructions Measure words verbs Nouns Particles structural Prepositions Sentence types passive Verbs and verb phrases resultative verb auxiliary Word for approximation
12–16 The changing world: Travel in a modern world Students consider how technology is: changing world travel influencing how people plan their holidays influencing how people communicate whilst away. Task 12: Response: Viewing and reading (Week 15) Task 13: Response: Listening (Week 16) Text types and textual conventions chart, conversation, email, interview, message, table Linguistic resources Vocabulary and structures related to Travel in a modern Sound and writing systems Consolidation of sound and writing systems. Intercultural understandings consider current issues of travelling in the world today explore how technology and communication have made travel more accessible Language learning and communication strategies grouping or sorting vocabulary, script to support internalisation of new language practising sentence structure and paragraph writing developing skills such as anticipation to overcome fear of making mistakes Linguistic resources Grammar Adverbs Conjunctions Constructions Measure words verbs Nouns Particles structural Prepositions Sentence passive Verbs and verb phrases resultative verb auxiliary Word for approximation