Unit 2: Nganhthanun Bubu – Year 1

Overview

Unit 2: Nganhthanun Bubu – Year 1 is an Aboriginal language unit for Year 1 students. It aligns to the Australian Curriculum’s Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages.

Learning objectives

In Lessons 1 to 10, students learn to: 

• speak and read phrases relating to values and friends 
• recite and read passages from jesus gadildabaarbuthuun-gu 
• read and say greetings 
• speak and read numerical sentences 
• speak and read phrases describing looking. 

Teaching Resources

• Lessons
• Teaching Guide
• Student Workbook

Assessment

Progress test 

In Lesson 5, teachers give progress tests to students to assess how well the students have learned the language so far and to identify the areas that require more instruction. The test questions are in the Teaching Guide, and students record their responses in a Student Workbook. 

End-of-Unit Assessment 

The final lesson is the End-of-Unit Assessment. It includes a range of question types (such as circle the correct word, sketch an image of something) to evaluate how well students have mastered the unit’s material. The Teaching Guide contains the unit assessment. At test time, teachers make copies of the assessment and hand them to the students.