Course topics.

Try this with English as an Additional Language or Dialect

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• The Listening section: format, two hearings and the order of questions
• Note-taking from lectures, interviews and speeches
• Answering listening questions to the mark: list, identify, outline, describe, explain
• Beyond the facts: metaphor, speaker attitude, multiple-choice and table items
• Short-answer reading: finding the answer in the right text
• Fact and opinion, perspective and choosing supporting quotations
• How non-fiction texts persuade: expert voices, statistics and language choices
• Reading graphs, tables and visual texts for findings
• The synthesis question: finding three main ideas common to the texts
• Writing the synthesis: own words, thematic paragraphs and own knowledge
• Speech conventions for a named audience and purpose
• Persuasive and rhetorical devices in your own speech
• Unpacking a speech prompt and writing it in 35 minutes
• Unpacking the essay question: every key word, two texts
• Essay structure: thesis, topic and tieback sentences, real cohesion
• Using two studied texts as evidence without retelling
• Grammar for high marks: complex sentences, modality, nominalisation and voice
• Vocabulary, register, idiom and spelling
• Unit 3 contexts: First Nations peoples, migration, identity, commonality and difference, global Australia
• Unit 4 contexts: the power of language, language and culture, contemporary issues, challenges