§-Essential English syllabus
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Essential English syllabus, dot point by dot point
Every dot point in the QLD Essential English syllabus, in syllabus order, with a focused answer for each. Open any dot point for the answer, exam-style questions and links to related points.
Unit 3: Language that influences
Module overview →Creating and shaping perspectives on community, local and global issues in texts
Identify and explain the perspectives on community, local and global issues presented in texts, including whose voices are included or left out, and select and use subject matter to support a perspective in your own texts
Creating and shaping perspectives on community, local and global issues in texts
Create a spoken response that presents a perspective on a community, local or global issue to a particular audience, using spoken, non-verbal and persuasive language features, an appropriate role and relationship with the audience, and a coherent structure
Responding to texts that seek to influence audiences
Explain how language features, text structures and visual elements in texts that seek to influence (advertisements, opinion pieces, speeches, campaigns and social media posts) position audiences and invite particular responses
Responding to texts that seek to influence audiences
Respond to seen and unseen media texts by identifying, considering and explaining how the elements that make up the texts (written, visual and layout features) shape meaning and represent issues, identities, places, events or concepts, as required in the common internal assessment
Unit 4: Representations and popular culture texts
Module overview →Responding to popular culture texts
Explain how popular culture texts (such as films, television series, music videos, games, podcasts and social media content) represent identities, places, events and concepts, including Australian ones, and how language, visual and audio features invite audiences to accept, question or reject those representations
Creating representations of Australian identities, places, events and concepts
Make language choices according to register informed by purpose, audience and context, use mode-appropriate language features across spoken, written and multimodal texts, and sequence subject matter with cohesive devices to construct coherent texts
Creating representations of Australian identities, places, events and concepts
Create a multimodal response that represents an Australian identity, place, event or concept, combining spoken, written, visual and audio modes and mode-appropriate language features to achieve a purpose for a particular audience
Creating representations of Australian identities, places, events and concepts
Create a written response for a particular purpose and audience that represents identities, places, events and/or concepts, using the patterns and conventions of the chosen genre, sequenced subject matter, cohesive devices and deliberate language choices
