The Chinese-speaking Text types and textual conventions Linguistic resources communities: account, conversation, email, Welcome to Grammar interview Australia Students discuss and Adverbs Linguistic resources describe how to prepare a Vocabulary and structures related to Conjunctions Chinese-speaking student Welcome to Australia for: Constructions and writing systems travel weather, – Measure all sound units: aspirated and famous places, leisure words verbs unaspirated activities tones work and/or Nouns pronunciation and intonation study. Intercultural understandings Task 8: Response: Particles structural explain communication etiquette Viewing and reading for Chinese visitors to Australia (Week 4) Prepositions discuss employment, working Task 9: Written hours, holiday periods Sentence communication (Week 5) discuss coping with daily life types passive situations/issues while travelling 1–5 in Australia Verbs and discuss managing differences in verb phrases resultative the essentials of travel explore tourist destinations in verb Australia and the influence they have on social practices auxiliary discuss shopping, bargaining Word for and tipping customs in Australia approximation compare local food and drink with that of Chinese Language learning and communication strategies practising pronunciation and repair strategies to sustain verbal communication checking meaning of Chinese characters from dictionaries; finding translation for Pinyin
1–5 The Chinese-speaking communities: Welcome to Australia Students discuss and describe how to prepare a Chinese-speaking student for: travel – weather, famous places, leisure activities work and/or study. Task 8: Response: Viewing and reading (Week 4) Task 9: Written communication (Week 5) Text types and textual conventions account, conversation, email, interview Linguistic resources Vocabulary and structures related to Welcome to Australia and writing systems all sound units: aspirated and unaspirated tones pronunciation and intonation Intercultural understandings explain communication etiquette for Chinese visitors to Australia discuss employment, working hours, holiday periods discuss coping with daily life situations/issues while travelling in Australia discuss managing differences in the essentials of travel explore tourist destinations in Australia and the influence they have on social practices discuss shopping, bargaining and tipping customs in Australia compare local food and drink with that of Chinese Language learning and communication strategies practising pronunciation and repair strategies to sustain verbal communication checking meaning of Chinese characters from dictionaries; finding translation for Pinyin Linguistic resources Grammar Adverbs Conjunctions Constructions Measure words verbs Nouns Particles structural Prepositions Sentence types passive Verbs and verb phrases resultative verb auxiliary Word for approximation