What is GENERAL Essential English all about?
Students develop their language in the context of their future needs, career goals and interests. They further develop reading, oral, viewing and writing skills to meet their needs and achieve their goals. They will work with a variety of everyday and work-based texts that they will be expected to use once they leave school.
Who should select these units in Year 11?
Students who do not intend to go to University or are seeking employment, apprenticeships or traineeships.
Pathway
To be an apprentice or continue in certificate courses at TAFE; be in the VET program or join the workforce. If they are still at school in Year 12, they would continue in Units 3 and 4.
Areas of Study
UNIT 1 – ESSENTIAL ENGLISH
- Comprehending to the ideas and information in texts
- Responding to the ideas and information in texts
Non Print: Feature Film, Documentary, Television, Advertising and Still Images
Print: Short Story, Plays, Novels, Newspaper and Magazine
UNIT 2 – ESSENTIAL ENGLISH
- Interpreting ideas in a range of texts and contexts
- Interpreting arguments in a range of texts and contexts
Non Print: Feature Film, Documentary, Television, Advertising and Still Images
Print: Short Story, Plays, Novels, Newspaper and Magazine
To provide for different learning styles a variety of assessment tasks are used. For each course of study tasks are selected from:
- Fiction: novels, short stories, fairy tales, song lyrics and myths and legends
- Non –fiction: news reports, essays and documentaries
- Media texts: newspaper articles, films and television programs
- Everyday texts : computer games, comic books, instructions, diagrams and blogs
- Workplace texts; reports, minutes, memos and letters.
What is GENERAL English all about?
The course will develop students’ language, literacy and literacy skills to enable them to communicate successfully both orally and in writing in order to support them in the context of their future needs, career goals and interests. They will continue to build on a variety of everyday and work-based texts that they will be expected to use once they leave school.
Who should select these units in Year 12?
Students who do not intend to go to University or are seeking employment, apprenticeships or traineeships.
Pathway
To be an apprentice or continue in certificate courses at TAFE; be in the VET program or join the workforce.
Areas of Study
UNIT 3 GENERAL ENGLISH
- Develop and justify their own interpretations when responding to texts
- Understand how language choices influence specific audiences
Non-Print
Feature Film, Still Images, Television, Radio Plays, Documentary
Short Story, Novels, Scripts
UNIT 4 GENERAL ENGLISH
- Investigate the way language is used to present issues and attitudes
- Express a logical point of view about an idea, issue or event in a range of media and digital technologies
Non-Print
Feature Film, Song Lyrics
Novels
To provide for different learning styles a variety of assessment tasks are used. For each course of study tasks are selected from:
- Fiction: novels, short stories, scripts, song lyrics
- Non-fiction: essays and documentaries
- Media texts: films, television programs, radio plays
- Everyday texts: instructions, diagrams, blogs
- Workplace texts: reports, statistics, letters
