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Elaborations

• AC9LH2U03_E1understanding that English uses the Roman alphabet containing 5 vowels and 21 consonants, whereas Hindi uses Devanāgarī script containing 13 vowels and 40 consonants
• AC9LH2U03_E2noticing differences in word order in Hindi and English sentences such as मुझे आइसक्रीम पसंद है। versus ‘I like ice cream’
• AC9LH2U03_E3understanding Hindi and English texts as different forms of communication that can be spoken, written, digital or visual, recognising that they can be very short, for example, रुको, or much longer, for example, तुम ज़रा ठहर जाओ।
• AC9LH2U03_E4recognising that different types of Hindi and English texts may have similar or different features, such as repetition and rhythm in action songs and rhymes, or similar beginnings to stories, for example, एक समय की बात है ... and ‘Once upon a time’
• AC9LH2U03_E5identifying English loan words and expressions used in Hindi, understanding that they may be pronounced slightly differently, for example, phone is pronounced as फ़ोन and dollar as डालर
• AC9LH2U03_E6noticing some examples of Hindi words that are used in English, for example, योग – yoga, साड़ी ¬– sari, खाकी – khaki, पायजामा – pyjama
• AC9LH2U03_E7noticing similarities and differences in Hindi and English punctuation such as full stops
• AC9LH2U03_E8using some simple metalanguage to talk about Hindi and English language structures such as sentence, word, script, spelling and full stop