Year 5

Students communicate in Italian, initiating interactions with the teacher and peers to exchange information about their home, neighbourhood and local community. They participate in guided tasks, planning outings or activities and completing transactions. They gather, compare and convey information from a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts related to their personal and social worlds. Students share responses to characters, events and ideas in imaginative texts and make connections with their own experience and feelings. They create or reinterpret, present or perform imaginative texts, based on or adapted from events, characters or settings.

Students are becoming more familiar with the systems of the Italian language, developing pronunciation and intonation of Italian-specific sounds and applying the rules of spelling to writing in familiar types of texts and contexts. They use context-related vocabulary and develop and apply knowledge of grammatical elements in simple spoken and written texts to generate language for a range of purposes such as using singular forms of the present tense of regular and some irregular verbs to convey present and immediate future situations and events. Students build a metalanguage in Italian to comment on vocabulary and grammar, describe patterns, grammatical rules and variations in language structures. Students are encouraged to reflect on how their own and others’ language use is shaped by and reflects communities’ ways of thinking and behaving and may be differently interpreted by others.

In Year 5 students are widening their social networks, experiences and communication repertoires in both their first language and Italian. They are supported to use Italian as much as possible for classroom routines and interactions, structured learning tasks and language experimentation and practice. English is predominantly used for discussion, clarification, explanation, analysis and reflection.