Scotch College

LOTE – INDONESIAN Year 9 — 2012

Course Content

Semester 1:

Topics Leisure interests of Indonesian teenagers: making social arrangements, Finding one’s way 

around town: Asking for and finding directions, transport around town, and Shopping: 

purchasing food and clothing in the market and the shop (bargaining and set price).

Grammar Words of frequency, invitation questioning, expressing apologies, expressing day, time, place, ber -verbs and me - verbs, question patterns, prepositions, compass directions, language of comparison, ter -verbs, exclamatory statements, question forms, and word order to express emotional responses. 

Culture Similarities and differences in Indonesian and Australian leisure interests, the street scene in an Indonesian town and city, and conventions of purchasing in various settings, negotiating price.

Semester 2: 

Topic Travelling around in Indonesia: making travel arrangements, transport in Indonesia, the physical environment of Indonesia: comparing Australian and Indonesian, landscape, climate, farming and native wildlife. 

Grammar Questions using berapa , questions with - kah , imperatives, prohibitions, and requests, me -verbs, 

ke -an noun and adjectives, ber -verbs, verbs with prefix ter -, prepositions : 

sebelum/sesudah, me -verbs, conjunctions.

Culture What to expect when travelling inter-island and intra-island in Indonesia, the Indonesian physical environment, and climate, endangered species of Indonesia.