Essential English flashcards
27 QCE Essential English cards across 2 modules (5 definitions, 16 key facts, 6 fill-the-gap, 0 formulas). Each session gives you 20 cards, due cards first. Swipe right for easy, left for hard, down for again. Keyboard: Space to flip, 1 to 4 to rate.
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What this deck covers
Unit 3: Language that influences (14 cards, 4 dot points)
- How texts influence and position audiences: QCE Essential English Unit 3 (4)
- Perspectives on community, local and global issues: QCE Essential English Unit 3 (2)
- Planning and delivering a spoken response (IA1): QCE Essential English Unit 3 (3)
- Reading media texts for the common internal assessment: QCE Essential English Unit 3 (5)
Unit 4: Representations and popular culture texts (13 cards, 4 dot points)
- Planning and presenting a multimodal response (IA3): QCE Essential English Unit 4 (4)
- Planning and writing the written response (IA4): QCE Essential English Unit 4 (2)
- Register, language features and cohesion across modes: QCE Essential English (3)
- Representations in popular culture texts: QCE Essential English Unit 4 (4)
Sample cards from this deck
Definition · How texts influence and position audiences: QCE Essential English Unit 3
Define What does the composer want?
What does the composer want? (to sell, to change an opinion, to get donations or votes) and Who is the target audience? (age, interests, values). Techniques only make sense in relation to purpose and audience.
Definition · Planning and presenting a multimodal response (IA3): QCE Essential English Unit 4
Define What representation will you create?
For example, "Australian teenagers are more community-minded than people think", or "Our region is a place of resilience after natural disasters".
Definition · Reading media texts for the common internal assessment: QCE Essential English Unit 3
Define Elements
List the most important written, visual and layout elements.
Definition · Representations in popular culture texts: QCE Essential English Unit 4
Define Popular culture texts
Popular culture texts are made for and enjoyed by large audiences: films, TV and streaming series, music and music videos, video games, podcasts, advertising and social media content.
Fill the gap · Planning and delivering a spoken response (IA1): QCE Essential English Unit 3
Use ___ so listeners can follow: "Firstly", "Not only that", "Some people say... but", "Finally".
Use cohesive devices so listeners can follow: "Firstly", "Not only that", "Some people say... but", "Finally".
Fill the gap · Register, language features and cohesion across modes: QCE Essential English
A ___ text has ideas in a logical order that the audience can follow.
A coherent text has ideas in a logical order that the audience can follow.
Key fact · Perspectives on community, local and global issues: QCE Essential English Unit 3
Tell me about How texts construct perspectives
Whose perspective is this? Who benefits if I agree?
Key fact · Planning and writing the written response (IA4): QCE Essential English Unit 4
Tell me about Build the representation
Decide what you want readers to think about your identity, place, event or concept, then choose characters, settings, events, details and language that build it. Repeated images and motifs (the red dust, the shared thermos of tea) strengthen a representation.