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
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
Texts Essential English
Teachers will use an array of material in class. Texts include literary texts, fiction and non-fiction, media texts, everyday texts, and workplace texts, from increasingly complex and unfamiliar settings, ranging from the everyday language of personal …
Texts | 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
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
ACEEE003
making personal connections with texts
ACEEE003 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | 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
ACEEE035
the use of narrative techniques; for example, characterisation and dialogue in novels and film, avatars in multiplayer video games and first person narrator.
ACEEE035 | 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
ACEEE048
the use of mediums, types of texts, text structures and language features; for example, subjective and objective reporting in feature articles and current affairs programs, appeals to reason and emotion in persuasive texts and juxtaposition of images …
ACEEE048 | 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