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Elaborations

• AC9LMG4U03_E1<p>comparing Greek and English names, for example, discussing how female names often end with a vowel/vowel sound, for example, <em>Μαρία, Αγγελική</em>, and male names often end with <em>ς</em>, for example, <em>Χρήστος, Δημήτρης, Κώστας</em></p>
• AC9LMG4U03_E2developing vocabulary to describe and explain features of Greek using metalanguage, for example, using the terms masculine, feminine, neuter nouns, verbs, tenses, adjectives, conjunctions, in Greek or English
• AC9LMG4U03_E3discussing how Australian English terms and expressions might be understood or interpreted from a Greek perspective, for example, ‘the outback’, ‘bushwalking’, ‘kick a footy’ or ‘no worries’
• AC9LMG4U03_E4identifying the main Greek and English language features of a short narrative such as a song, rhyme or poem, or a simple description, dialogue or procedure such as a recipe
• AC9LMG4U03_E5noticing the differences between texts of the same mode/macro skill, for example, a birthday card and an email, and between multimodal texts, for example, listening to or reading the lyrics of a song, or reading a dialogue and acting it out
• AC9LMG4U03_E6recognising how different textual elements combine to make meaning, for example, how the images, font, script and layout of different texts combine to create a whole advertisement, webpage or picture book
• AC9LMG4U03_E7<p>noticing that languages are fluid and ever evolving and influence each other, for example, some words in Greek such as <em>πάρτυ, χόμπυ, μπάσκετ, κομπιούτερ</em> are borrowed from other languages</p>
• AC9LMG4U03_E8recognising that Ancient Greek has developed into Modern Greek, and has influenced many languages including some words in English, for example, aeroplane, astronaut, history, mathematics, Nike, school, story
• AC9LMG4U03_E9<p>recognising similarities and differences in word order in simple Greek and English sentences, for example, subject+verb+object, <em>Εγώ μελετώ ελληνικά</em> – I study Greek, compared with object+verb+subject, <em>Ελληνικά μελετώ εγώ</em> – Greek (is what) I study</p>