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• VCEALL391

  Use a range of verb forms correctly

  Elaborations

  • maintaining consistency of verb tenses in a paragraph or short text, such as ‘–ing’ and ‘–ed’
  • using ‘to be’ as an auxiliary verb in common phrases, for example in simple passive constructions (‘It was broken’) or continuous tenses (‘I am eating’)
  • using ‘to have’ as an auxiliary verb in common phrases, for example ‘They have finished’
  • expressing a small range of complex negatives with some accuracy, for example with appropriate subject–verb agreement (‘He doesn’t like’) or modality (‘She can’t come’)

  VCEALL391 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL021

  Understand the tense of statements or instructions by using time references

  Elaborations

  • understanding common time references in basic sentences, such as ‘We went yesterday’, ‘Tomorrow we will go’, ‘Now we can eat lunch’
  • matching simple verb tense to time words, such as ‘Yesterday we did …’, ‘Tomorrow we do …’
  • sometimes using inconsistent tense when describing events in the past, present and future, for example ‘We waited and then catch the train’

  VCEALL021 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | 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