Get Ahead

This CD features a series of interactive activities and printable material. The emphasis is on real life examples which are interesting and applicable to life beyond school.

Moving On

Using frameworks provided in this CD, students will analyse and produce visual texts, explore values and attitudes in texts, investigate stereotypes, create a narrative and publish a diary/blog.

English Unit 1C

This resource covers the requirements of the English 1C course. There are eight learning activities which can be used by students independently or which teachers can use in a classroom situation either in separate modules or as an entire course. The lessons are designed to meet the needs, interests and abilities of adolescent learners, particularly reluctant readers. Short interactive activities provide students with the skills to complete more comprehensive tasks in reading, writing, viewing, listening and speaking tasks. Topics covered include advertising, documentaries, biographies, autobiographies, workplace listening skills, language and society and report writing. There is a strong focus on the critical reading of texts.

English Unit 1D

The focus of English Unit 1D is language and society. Students develop skills needed for more general social and cultural participation such as comprehending, interpreting and evaluating mass media, popular culture and literature texts, identifying ideas, attitudes and opinions in such texts and discussing their responses. Students study mass media texts, popular culture texts and less complex literary texts.

English Unit 2C

English Unit 2C explores the role of language in communities. Language plays an important role in shaping the beliefs and attitudes of a community. These beliefs and attitudes help form communities and determine the kind of stories that are told within them. Language use also gives positions of power to some groups of people in that community and has the negative effect of marginalising others. Students will study the relationship between language use and the beliefs and attitudes of communities, including friendships, families, schools, workplaces, sporting clubs and the idea of a broader Australian community. Students will explore these ideas through texts, including short stories, essays, photographs, newspaper and feature articles, television drama, novel and other transactional texts.