ACELA1426

Understand that English is one of many languages spoken in Australia and that different languages may be spoken by family, classmates and community

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELA1426 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1515

Understand that different social and geographical dialects or accents are used in Australia in addition to Standard Australian English

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELA1515 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1550

Understand that Standard Australian English is a living language within which the creation and loss of words and the evolution of usage is ongoing

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELA1550 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1563

Understand that Standard Australian English in its spoken and written forms has a history of evolution and change and continues to evolve

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELA1563 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum

Key ideas English

Texts Texts provide the means for communication. They can be written, spoken, visual, multimodal, and in print or digital/online forms. Multimodal texts combine language with other means of communication such as visual images, soundtrack or spoken words, …

Key ideas | English | F-10 curriculum

Aims English

The Australian Curriculum: English aims to ensure that students: learn to listen to, read, view, speak, write, create and reflect on increasingly complex and sophisticated spoken, written and multimodal texts across a growing range of contexts with accuracy, …

Aims | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1487

Understand that Standard Australian English is one of many social dialects used in Australia, and that while it originated in England it has been influenced by many other languages

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELA1487 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1550

identifying some of the changes in the grammar of English over time, for example from ‘thee’ and ‘thou’ to ‘you’

Elaboration | ACELA1550 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1563

investigating differences between spoken and written English by comparing the language of conversation and interviews with the written language of print texts

Elaboration | ACELA1563 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1487

identifying words used in Standard Australian English that are derived from other languages, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, and determining if the original meaning is reflected in English usage, for example example ‘kangaroo’, …

Elaboration | ACELA1487 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1515

recognising that all languages and dialects are of equal value, although we use different ones in different contexts, for example the use of Standard Australian English, Aboriginal English and forms of Creole used by some Torres Strait Islander groups …

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1515 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1426

recognising that some texts can include both Standard Australian English and elements of other languages including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1426 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1488

recognising that we can use language differently with our friends and families, but that Standard Australian English is typically used in written school texts and more formal contexts

Elaboration | ACELA1488 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1506

learning that in Standard Australian English regular plural nouns ending in ‘s’ form the possessive by adding just the apostrophe, for example ‘my parents' car’

Elaboration | ACELA1506 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1431

learning that written text in Standard Australian English has conventions about words, spaces between words, layout on the page and consistent spelling because it has to communicate when the speaker/writer is not present

Elaboration | ACELA1431 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1433

learning that Standard Australian English in written texts is read from left to right and from top to bottom of the page and that direction of print may differ in other cultures, for example Japanese texts

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1433 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1506

learning that in Standard Australian English for proper nouns the regular possessive form is always possible but a variant form without the second ‘s’ is sometimes found, for example ‘James’s house’ or ‘James’ …

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1506 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1502

recognising that a bare assertion (for example 'It's the best film this year') often needs to be tempered by: using the 'impersonal it' to distance oneself (for example 'It could be that it is the best film this year'); recruiting anonymous support (for …

Elaboration | ACELA1502 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (4) ACELA1523

knowing that there are various ways in English to refer to future time, for example auxiliary ‘will’, as in ‘She will call you tomorrow’; present tense, as in ‘Tomorrow I leave for Hobart’; and adverbials of time, as …

Elaboration (4) | ACELA1523 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELT1584

discussing features of book settings including time (year, season) and place (country or city, realistic or imagined)

Elaboration (2) | ACELT1584 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum