Unit 1: Nganhthanun Bayan – Foundation Year

Overview

Unit 1: Nganhthanun Bayan – Foundation Year is an Aboriginal language unit for Foundation Year 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:

• create and speak a statement describing both you and your partner.
• create and speak a phrase referencing your gender and that of your companion.
• create and say a statement referring to a person’s height.
• write and say a question and reply.
• make a command and say it.
• create and speak a phrase referencing your name.
• create and say an animal-related sentence.
• make and say this and that in sentences.
• specify the length of sentences.
• make and say a sentence about old people. 
• speak and create sentences using pronouns
• make a statement about buddies.
• make and say a command.
• create and speak a sentence about animals.
• say something about your friend and form a sentence.
• make a statement about value.
• say or create a statement expressing your happiness.
• say or form a sentence as a group or to a group.
• to greet and bid someone farewell, say and form sentences.
• speak and create questions about how someone is and reply. 

Teaching resources

• Lessons
• Teaching Guide
• Student Workbook

Assessment

Progress tests
In Lesson 5, Progress Tests are given to students, enabling teachers to assess how well they have learned the language so far and to identify the areas that require more instruction. The test questions are in the teaching guide, and there is a handout on which students can record their responses.

End-of-Unit Assessments

The final lesson is the End-of-Unit Assessment, which 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 give them to the pupils.