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• VCEALL262

  Use comprehensible pronunciation for a range of high-frequency words learnt in class

  Elaborations

  • developing comprehensible pronunciation through imitation and rehearsal
  • accurately pronouncing a range of high-frequency words used in classroom instructions, texts and interactions

  VCEALL262 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL558

  Sequence events chronologically using time markers

  Elaborations

  • using a small range of time markers to indicate specific moments in the past, present and future, such as ‘yesterday’, ‘last week’, ‘on the weekend’

  VCEALL558 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL583

  Recognise words for everyday items and actions, and topic-specific vocabulary that has been taught

  Elaborations

  • recognising in an unfamiliar text topic-specific vocabulary that has been taught
  • recognising words commonly used in classroom speech, when printed on signs, on notices or in classroom texts

  VCEALL583 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL514

  Use features of the text to make predictions

  Elaborations

  • predicting the content of a text based on organisational features such as the title, headings, pictures, diagrams
  • looking at illustrations to make predictions about characters and events in stories

  VCEALL514 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL201

  Understand the sequence of events in a familiar text

  Elaborations

  • sequencing a short series of pictures or simple sentences to retell a familiar story

  VCEALL201 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL261

  Use pronunciation and some non-verbal features to support communication

  Elaborations

  • attending to intonation and tone to distinguish between questions, instructions and statements
  • recognising and imitating features of sounds and intonation in the speech of the teacher and peers, and in video or audio clips
  • expressing emotions through intonation, for example happiness or anger

  VCEALL261 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL442

  Understand and use the appropriate metalanguage to talk about the structures and features of a text

  Elaborations

  • labelling parts of a text, such as ‘chapter’, ‘index’, ‘orientation’
  • locating features that help to structure a text, for example highlighting and labelling pronouns or conjunctions

  VCEALL442 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL687

  Use time signals to link extended speech

  Elaborations

  • indicating the relationship between events by using time signals
  • using extended phrases to indicate time, such as ‘Before we started the experiment, we ...’, ‘At the end of this talk, I’ll …’

  VCEALL687 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL631

  Self-correct and improve aspects of pronunciation that impede communication

  Elaborations

  • identifying specific words in a text that may pose pronunciation problems, based on specific guidance from the teacher, such as ‘Find all the words ending in “s”’
  • asking for support with communication, such as ‘What is the difference between “walk” and “work”?’

  VCEALL631 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL560

  Choose correct syntactic forms for questions, statements and commands

  Elaborations

  • beginning questions with question words such as ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘when’, ‘how’
  • using auxiliary verbs with some accuracy to construct simple open, closed, positive and negative questions, for example ‘Do you like running?’, ‘Why can’t you eat that?’
  • constructing positive and negative statements using subject + verb, for example ‘I finished’ and ‘The bus arrived’
  • beginning commands with an imperative verb, for example ‘Come over here’, ‘Bring that’

  VCEALL560 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL282

  Use some of the terminology of reading

  Elaborations

  • understanding terminology such as ‘author’, ‘title’, ‘letter’, ‘word’, ‘sentence’
  • identifying features of a text in answer to questions such as ‘Who is the author of this book?’

  VCEALL282 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL253

  Use simple conjunctions

  Elaborations

  • using a small range of simple conjunctions such as ‘and’ and ‘but’
  • formulating basic compound sentences with the most common conjunctions, for example ‘I caught a bus and then walked’

  VCEALL253 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL414

  Use appropriate sequence markers

  Elaborations

  • understanding sequence markers in spoken texts and using these to order written text or pictures
  • structuring own spoken texts, such as recounts, procedures or explanations, using a range of sequence markers, such as ‘first’, ‘finally’, ‘until’, ‘when’

  VCEALL414 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL320

  Use basic software functions to present text

  Elaborations

  • using a keyboard to type capital and lower-case letters, numbers and basic punctuation marks
  • typing letters, numbers, symbols and words, copying from a print text
  • using simple editing functions such as inserting or deleting a word, and formatting functions such as making text bold or changing the colour

  VCEALL320 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL396

  Select some descriptive vocabulary appropriate to context

  Elaborations

  • choosing synonyms for different contexts, such as ‘huge’ for ‘big’ or ‘entertaining’ for ‘fun’
  • beginning to understand when to use subjective language (for example in personal texts) and objective language (for example in factual texts)

  VCEALL396 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL444

  Interpret the meaning of written text that uses a range of tenses and negation

  Elaborations

  • identifying the base word and understanding the effect of more complex tense and negation, for example in ‘had not arrived yet’
  • identifying simple passive constructions and comparing them to active constructions, such as ‘We read the book’ and ‘The book was read by our class’
  • transforming sentences from a text into negatives or different tenses

  VCEALL444 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL419

  Assess the grammatical correctness of own utterances and attempt some self-correction

  Elaborations

  • noticing errors with pronunciation, vocabulary choice or grammar, and attempting to correct these
  • attending to the body language, facial expressions and speech of listeners to determine whether meaning has been understood
  • seeking assistance or feedback from speech partners to formulate or confirm corrected expressions

  VCEALL419 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL342

  Use pronunciation and non-verbal features to support communication

  Elaborations

  • imitating features of the speech of others, including the teacher, peers and speakers in video or audio clips
  • practising pronunciation, rhythm and intonation by repeating words, phrases and sentences

  VCEALL342 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL160

  Adjust size of writing, colour, layout and choice of media to support meaning

  Elaborations

  • following model texts or templates to lay out learnt text types
  • separating ideas in texts by leaving a line or writing a heading
  • locating images close to relevant written information
  • using a basic software application to format a digital text, for example headings in a larger font, images placed near relevant text

  VCEALL160 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL237

  Spell a number of high-frequency words accurately

  Elaborations

  • spelling some high-frequency words accurately from memory, including own name and short words used regularly, such as ‘it’, ‘my’, ‘we’
  • representing words by their initial letter, such as ‘b’ for ‘book’

  VCEALL237 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features