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• VCEALA576

  Refer to a simple bilingual dictionary or request help from peers or school staff who speak the same home language to find the meaning of unfamiliar words

  Elaborations

  • referring to a dictionary to check spelling or meaning of English words
  • drawing on a range of shared languages to negotiate meaning and clarify information
  • recording spelling, meaning and translations of new words in a vocabulary list

  VCEALA576 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALL580

  Demonstrate awareness of basic sentence and question patterns

  Elaborations

  • ordering words and phrases to create grammatical and logical sentences and questions
  • pointing out the subject, verb and object in sentences such as ‘She bought some fruit’
  • identifying question words such as ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘why’

  VCEALL580 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALC591

  Write to communicate personal ideas

  Elaborations

  • writing a small range of texts to communicate personal experiences and ideas, for example a personal recount or story
  • following the structure of model texts, such as the use of a greeting, sequence of events, reflection in an online journal

  VCEALC591 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Writing | Communication

• 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