AC9LC4U03

Elaborations

• AC9LC4U03_E1comparing the similarities and differences of Chinese sentence structure with English subject+verb+object, and questions, for example, comparing “Do you have a cat?” versus 你有猫吗？, or “What's your name?” with 你叫什么名字？
• AC9LC4U03_E2exploring the Pinyin alphabet and comparing with Roman alphabet, recognising that initials such as ‘x’, ‘q’, ‘c’, ‘zh’, ‘g’, ‘shi’, ‘chi’, ‘zhi’, ‘pi’, ‘ji’ and vowels such as ‘i’, ‘e’, ‘u’, ‘ie’ are pronounced differently from English
• AC9LC4U03_E3recognising grammatical features and how their use differs in Chinese and English, for example, recognising the lack of articles in Chinese, that adjectives can be used as verbs, and the limited use of the verb ‘to be’ 是
• AC9LC4U03_E4recognising that Chinese uses measures, and comparing measure word usage in Chinese and English
• AC9LC4U03_E5discussing differences in Chinese names and English names, for example, discussing how Chinese surnames are written first and given names follow