What is an Idiom? What is the grade at which the Vietnamese language curriculum includes the meaning of some easily understandable idioms?

What is an Idiom?

An idiom is an indispensable part of our language. Using idioms flexibly and accurately will make your language richer and more vivid.

Students can refer to thee following information on the idiom:

*Note: The information is for reference only./.

What is an Idiom? What is the grade at which the Vietnamese language curriculum includes the meaning of some easily understandable idioms? (Image from the Internet)

What is the grade at which the Vietnamese language curriculum includes the meaning of some easily understandable idioms?

Under Section 5 of the general education program for Literature issued together with Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT, the learning outcomes required for 4th-grade Vietnamese language include:

VIETNAMESE KNOWLEDGE

1. Rules for writing the proper names of organizations and institutions

2.1. Vocabulary by topic

2.2. Uses of dictionaries, how to find words and their meanings in dictionaries

2.3. The meaning of some easily understandable idioms

2.4. The meaning of some common Sino-Vietnamese elements

2.5. The effect of choosing words in expressing meaning

3.1. Nouns, verbs, adjectives: characteristics and functions

3.2. Proper nouns and common nouns: characteristics and functions

3.3. Sentences and main components of sentences: characteristics and functions

3.4. Sentence adverbs: characteristics and functions (supplementing information)

3.5. Usage of dash (placed at the beginning of lines to mark listed ideas); hyphen (connecting words in a compound term); quotation marks (marking the name of a work, document); parentheses (marking annotations)

Thus, the meaning of some easily understandable idioms is content in the 4th-grade Vietnamese language curriculum.

What are the literary competencies required for 4th-grade students in Vietnam?

Under the general education program for Literature issued together with Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT, the literary competencies required for 4th-grade students in Vietnam are as follows:

Distinguish between narrative and poetic texts (prose passages, poems); recognize the content of the text and the writer's attitude and feelings; begin to understand the effects of some formal elements of literary texts (language, characters, plot, rhyme, comparison, personification). Know how to associate, imagine, and express literature in writing and speaking.

- For students in grades 1 and 2: recognize what the text is about, recognize characters in stories, rhymes in poetry; distinguish between stories and poetry.

- For students in grades 3, 4, and 5: know how to read literary texts expressively; retell, and summarize the main content of the story, or poem; comment on characters, events, and the writer's attitude and feelings in the text; recognize the time and place, some types of poetry rhyme, rhythm, beautiful and unique words and images, and the effects of rhetorical devices such as personification and comparison.

Understand the meaning or lesson derived from the text. Be able to write narratives and descriptive passages expressing emotions and the ability to associate and imagine.