Unit 1 Essential English
Unit 1 focuses on students comprehending and responding to the ideas and information presented in texts drawn from a range of contexts. Students are taught a variety of strategies to assist comprehension. They read, view and listen to texts to connect, …
Unit 1 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 2 Essential English
Unit 2 focuses on interpreting ideas and arguments in a range of texts and contexts. By analysing text structures and language features and identifying the ideas, arguments and values expressed, students make inferences about the purposes and the intended …
Unit 2 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 3 Essential English
Unit 3 focuses on exploring different points of view presented in a range of texts and contexts. Students analyse attitudes, text structures and language features to understand a text’s meaning and purpose. They consider how perspectives and values are …
Unit 3 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 4 Essential English
Unit 4 focuses on community, local or global issues and ideas presented in texts and on developing students’ reasoned responses to them. Students develop independent points of view by synthesising information from a range of sources, and analysing how …
Unit 4 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Rationale/Aims Essential English
Rationale Essential English focuses on consolidating and refining the skills and knowledge needed by students to become competent, confident and engaged users of English in many contemporary contexts including everyday, community, social, further education, …
Rationale/Aims | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure of Essential English Essential English
Units Unit 1 focuses on students comprehending and responding to the ideas and information presented in texts drawn from a range of contexts. Students are taught a variety of strategies to assist comprehension. They read, view and listen to texts to connect, …
Structure of Essential English | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Representation of General capabilities Essential English
General capabilities covered in Essential English include: Literacy, Numeracy, Information and communication technology (ICT) capability, Critical and creative thinking, Personal and social capability, Ethical understanding and Intercultural understanding. Literacy Literacy …
Representation of General capabilities | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE005
how social, community and workplace texts are constructed for particular purposes, audiences and contexts
ACEEE005 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE006
the ways text structures and language features are used to influence audiences, for example, image selection in websites, emotive language in speeches or films, stereotypes in video games and vocabulary choices in advertisements
ACEEE006 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE011
using appropriate language, content and mode for different purposes and audiences, for example, in everyday, social, community or workplace contexts
ACEEE011 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE020
the effects of mediums, types of texts and text structures on audiences, for example, pop-ups on websites, flashbacks in films and intonation in speeches
ACEEE020 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE025
using persuasive, visual and literary techniques to engage audiences in a range of modes, mediums and contexts
ACEEE025 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE032
explaining shifts in intonation and point of view, identifying the effect of language choices on an audience.
ACEEE032 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE033
the relationships between context, purpose, and audience, and the impact on meaning in social, community and workplace texts
ACEEE033 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE039
using personal voice and adopting different points of view to influence audiences in a range of mediums and digital technologies
ACEEE039 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE045
explaining how texts use language to appeal to the beliefs, attitudes and values of an audience
ACEEE045 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE054
integrating text structures, language features and visual techniques to engage and persuade audiences; for example, creating a multimedia advertising campaign, presenting a PowerPoint report, writing and illustrating a picture book and recording a radio …
ACEEE054 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum