Unit 3: Language that influences

4 dot points across 2 inquiry questions, in syllabus order. Each dot point has a focused answer, with exam-style questions and worked answers where available.

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

What a perspective is, how texts construct perspectives on community, local and global issues through selection, omission, framing and language, how to identify whose voices are heard or silenced, and how to select subject matter to support your own perspective.

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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

How to plan, write and deliver a spoken response on an issue for IA1: choosing a role and audience, a clear perspective, structure (hook, arguments, call to action), persuasive language, and spoken and non-verbal features such as pace, volume, pause, eye contact and gesture.

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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

How persuasive texts position audiences: purpose and audience, persuasive language (emotive words, inclusive language, rhetorical questions, statistics, expert opinion), text structure and visual techniques, with a method for explaining effects in short responses.

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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

How to prepare for the Essential English common internal assessment: what QCAA says it involves (a 90-minute short response to one seen and one unseen media text), the elements of internet and print media texts, a step-by-step method for analysing stimulus, and how to write clear short responses.

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