AC9LC6U03

Elaborations

• AC9LC6U03_E1recognising grammatical features and how their use differs in Chinese and English, for example, recognising the lack of articles in Chinese, and that adjectives can be used as verbs 他是老鼠, 他很胖
• AC9LC6U03_E2comparing possessive pronouns in Chinese and English
• AC9LC6U03_E3writing the date in Chinese and comparing with English, for example, practising writing the date daily
• AC9LC6U03_E4comparing the use of tenses in English and Chinese, for example, how future tense is often expressed through time phrases in Chinese 我明天去北京, 下个星期去上海 and that in Chinese, verbs convey tense without verb conjugation, for example, explaining why 有 can mean ‘have’, ‘had’ and ‘will have’
• AC9LC6U03_E5discussing, “What is the plural form?” and “How do we know it is plural when reading in English?” and developing knowledge of metalanguage