Content description ACLINU016

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Develop awareness that Indonesian and English borrow from each other.

[Key concept: borrowing; Key process: observing]

Elaborations

knowing that Indonesian and English use the same alphabet
recognising that Indonesian has some loan words from English, such as komputer and televisi, and that English has some from Indonesian, such as ‘orangutan’, ‘satay’ and ‘sarong’, with some changes in spelling
keeping a class record of words in Indonesian that are borrowed from other languages, including loan words from Aboriginal languages, Torres Strait Islander languages

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