Languages Online activities will be a useful resource for students working towards the Achievement Standards for Levels F-8.
Languages Online activities align with the following content descriptions. Please note that the activities relate to some (not all) of the elaborations for each content description.
Foundation – Level 2 | Levels 3 and 4 | Levels 5 and 6 | Levels 7 and 8 (7-10 sequence) |
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Communicating | |||
Socialising | |||
Participate in structured play and class activities, exchanging with peers and teacher greetings and information about self, family and interests (VCIDC001) | Share with peers and teacher information about aspects of personal world such as daily routines, home, and favourite objects and pastimes (VCIDC018) | Interact with peers to describe aspects of daily life, school, friends and pastimes (VCIDC035) | Interact with peers and teacher to exchange information and opinions about self, friends and family, pastimes, special occasions and the immediate environment (VCIDC086) |
Participate in guided group activities such as games, songs and simple tasks, using movement, gesture and pictures to support meaning (VCIDC002) | Respond to questions, instructions and requests, and participate in routine exchanges (VCIDC020) | Participate in classroom interactions and structured tasks by asking and responding to questions, seeking permission and expressing preferences (VCIDC037) | Interact in class routines and exchanges by asking and responding to questions, following instructions, and seeking help and permission (VCIDC088) |
Participate with teacher and peers in class routines and activities, including following instructions and taking turns (VCIDC003) | |||
Informing | |||
Locate specific words and familiar phrases in texts such as charts, lists and songs, and use information to complete guided oral and written tasks (VCIDC004) | Obtain and share information from peers and texts related to family, home, routines and interests (VCIDC021) | Locate, classify and compare factual information from texts about aspects of daily life and significant events across cultures (VCIDC038) | Identify gist and locate factual information (such as details about people and events) from a range of spoken and written texts, and use the information in new ways (VCIDC089) |
Give factual information about self, family and significant objects using labels, captions and descriptions (VCIDC005) | Present information about school and neighbourhood using tables, lists and descriptions (VCIDC022) | Present factual information and ideas about aspects of language and culture in oral, written and multimodal form (VCIDC090) | |
Creating | |||
Participate in shared reading and play-acting, and respond through singing, chanting, action and movement (VCIDC006) | Listen to, read and view creative texts such as rhymes, songs and stories, identifying characters and acting out events (VCIDC023) | ||
Create texts such as dialogues and stories, using formulaic expressions and modelled language (VCIDC024) | |||
Translating | |||
Translate familiar words and phrases, using visual cues and word lists, noticing how words may have similar or different meanings (VCIDC008) | Translate using textual cues such as pictures, layout and key words to predict meaning, and comment on the non-equivalence of words due to cultural differences (VCIDC025) | ||
Reflecting | |||
Notice what may look or feel similar or different to own language and culture when interacting in Indonesian (VCIDC010) | Communicate in Indonesian using routine phrases and expressions, recognising that such language reflects cultural practices and norms (VCIDC027) | ||
Describe aspects of self such as family, school/class, gender and language/s, noticing how these are part of one’s identity (VCIDC011) | Interact with others and notice how identity matters, such as in use of terms of address, who and what is included, and what language is used (VCIDC028) | ||
Understanding | |||
Systems of language | |||
Reproduce the sound and spelling of the vowels and the letters c (ch) and trilled r, and recognise that Indonesian is written using the Roman alphabet (VCIDU012) | Recognise and reproduce pronunciation conventions, including loan words from English and intonation for questions, statements and commands. (VCIDU029) | Notice pronunciation of phonemes such as ng/ngg/ny, and notice the difference in pronunciation of loan words from English (VCIDU046) | Develop understanding of pronunciation related to single and combined sounds and the use of intonation in statements and questions, noticing Indonesian spelling and pronunciation conventions (VCIDU097) |
Recognise questions, commands and simple subject-focus sentences, and develop vocabulary for people, places and things in their personal world (VCIDU013) | Develop understanding of ways to express possession and describe qualities of people and objects, and expand vocabulary related to personal and social world (VCIDU030) | Understand how to express actions and events in time and place using prepositions, and continue to expand knowledge of ber- verbs and vocabulary (VCIDU047) | Develop knowledge of structures and vocabulary for describing people, places and things, such as pronouns, ber- and me- verbs, adjectives, prepositions and word order (VCIDU098) |
Language variation and change | |||
Recognise that ways of greeting and addressing others may change according to cultural norms (VCIDU015) | Understand that language varies according to age, gender and social position, such as place in the family (VCIDU032) | Recognise that Indonesian contains influences from other languages, such as regional and foreign languages (VCIDU050) | Understand that Indonesian, like all languages, varies according to participants, roles and relationships, situations and cultures (VCIDU100) |
Develop awareness that Indonesian and English borrow from each other (VCIDU016) | Recognise that Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia and is one of many languages in the Asia-Pacific region (VCIDU033) | Understand that Indonesian is a national language that has been and continues to be changed through interaction with other languages and cultures (VCIDU101) | |
Role of language and culture | |||
Notice that the languages people use and the way they use them relate to who they are and where and how they live (VCIDU017) | Make connections between cultural practices and language use, such as specific vocabulary and expressions (VCIDU034) | Notice connections between language and culture in intercultural language use, recognising how words and expressions may be culture-specific (VCIDU102) |