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
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
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
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
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
ACEEE034
use of mediums, types of texts, text structures and language features; for example, the selective use of fact, evidence and opinion in newspaper reports, the use of statistics and graphs in advertisements, choice of colour and font-style in websites and …
ACEEE034 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE030
identifying facts, opinions, supporting evidence and bias
ACEEE030 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE044
evaluating the evidence upon which different views are based
ACEEE044 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE013
developing appropriate vocabulary and using accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar
ACEEE013 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE027
developing appropriate vocabulary and using accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar
ACEEE027 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE041
developing appropriate vocabulary and using accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar
ACEEE041 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE055
developing appropriate vocabulary and using accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar
ACEEE055 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE001
using structural and language features, for example, visual and aural cues to identify main ideas, supporting arguments and evidence
ACEEE001 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE012
using text structures and language features to communicate ideas and information in a range of mediums and digital technologies, for example, explaining workplace procedures, using navigation bars to create a web page, and developing a character’s back …
ACEEE012 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE007
the use of narrative features, for example, point of view in film, fiction and video games.
ACEEE007 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | 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
ACEEE021
the use of language features such as tone, register and style to influence responses, for example, character monologues in film, fiction and video games.
ACEEE021 | 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
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