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• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway A: Early immersion - EAL: Level A2 description

  The Level A2 curriculum supports students to expand their repertoire of spoken and written English. Students explore communication in predictable social situations. Students learn to identify key points in familiar topics and to develop their capacity to use images as cues to decode meaning.

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  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL

• VCEALC085

  Negotiate familiar social and learning situations using language appropriate to the situation

  Elaborations

  • negotiating in a range of familiar situations, such as explaining a problem to a teacher, negotiating the rules of a game with a friend, participating in a class discussion, describing an object, ordering at the school canteen
  • participating in classroom discussions about familiar topics or new topics that are well supported by visual material and/or scaffolding provided by the teacher
  • negotiating activities with peers in small group tasks, such as suggesting, agreeing, disagreeing, clarifying
  • participating in short, structured social interactions, such as exchanging basic information about family or school
  • initiating and managing interaction through conversational formulas, such as ‘Sorry, you help me?’
  • making simple requests and expressing needs, thoughts and opinions, such as ‘May I go to the toilet?’

  VCEALC085 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALL100

  Combine known formulas, structures and other vocabulary to communicate

  Elaborations

  • creating original utterances by using new words with known sentence structures, for example ‘Yesterday I went to the swim’
  • using a range of question beginnings, such as ‘Who’, ‘Where’, ‘How’, ‘Why’, ‘Do you …?’, ‘Can I …?’

  VCEALL100 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALA144

  Use a range of writing implements and writing styles for different purposes

  Elaborations

  • writing legibly and consistently by hand, using a range of implements such as pens, pencils
  • using basic keyboard functions to create, edit and format texts
  • planning the layout and format of texts, for example ruling margins, writing a first draft, measuring out boxes on a poster

  VCEALA144 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALC139

  Illustrate texts purposefully

  Elaborations

  • connecting image to sections of a text, for example drawing the body of a frog, its habitat and its life cycle
  • writing a descriptive caption or label for an image
  • drawing images or diagrams to accompany sentences in a narrative or recount
  • using an online storyboarding application to create a simple story map to show the events and characters in a narrative

  VCEALC139 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALL151

  Write sustained texts using sentences based on simple repetitive, modelled patterns

  Elaborations

  • writing original sentences with less reliance on copying
  • writing repetitive patterns to produce longer texts, such as ‘I like ..., and I like ...’
  • connecting clauses together to make compound sentences that may run on, for example ‘I came to school and met my friend and then we played handball and then the bell went’
  • using ‘because’ to create dependent clauses, though these may be incomplete sentences, for example ‘We went to the pool. Because it was hot’

  VCEALL151 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features