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• 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

• VCEALL475

  Create mood and feeling through the selection of appropriate vocabulary and idiom

  Elaborations

  • choosing vocabulary to express shades of meaning, for example choosing for effect ‘cloudy’, ‘gloomy’ or ‘bleak’
  • understanding differences between specialised and colloquial language, for example ‘feline’, ‘cat’ and ‘moggy’
  • using some idioms learnt from reading and viewing, in creative or personal writing

  VCEALL475 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | 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

• VCEALL420

  Respond to a sequence of instructions

  Elaborations

  • identifying key words used in the instructions, for example names of classroom items, software functions or action verbs, such as ‘workbook’, ‘paste’, ‘rule’
  • understanding a small number of instructions and following them in sequence, such as ‘Open your book to a new page. Rule up the page and write the date. Then copy the heading from the board’
  • asking for clarification, for example ‘Do I rule it up like this?’

  VCEALL420 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features