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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

• VCEALL336

  Use a range of verb forms with increasing accuracy

  Elaborations

  • maintaining consistency of verb tenses in extended speech or conversation, for example using ‘–ing’ and ‘–ed’
  • using forms of ‘to be’ or ‘to have’ as auxiliaries in common verb phrases, for example ‘It was broken’, ‘I am eating’, ‘They have finished’
  • accurately using auxiliary verbs to express negative forms, such as ‘I don’t go’, ‘I couldn’t see’

  VCEALL336 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL363

  Understand and use a range of learnt metalanguage to talk about text

  Elaborations

  • matching labels to parts of a text, such as ‘introduction’, ‘topic sentence’, ‘example’
  • identifying and labelling learnt features of language in a text, for example ‘noun’, ‘verb’, ‘conjunction’

  VCEALL363 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway A: Early immersion - EAL: Level B2 achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  At Level B2 students communicate and learn English in predictable social and learning situations, understanding some de-contextualised English and expressing simple messages in basic English. They negotiate simple transactions and ask and answer basic questions on familiar topics, using familiar...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening

• VCEALL340

  Respond to a short sequence of instructions in a familiar context

  Elaborations

  • understanding and using common classroom action verbs, such as ‘sit’, ‘collect’, ‘open’, ‘stop’
  • understanding and using simple sequence markers, such as ‘first’, ‘next’, ‘and then’
  • asking for clarification, for example ‘What next?’, ‘Is this right?’

  VCEALL340 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL390

  Write sentences with some common errors

  Elaborations

  • writing with some errors such as omission of articles (‘I kicked ball’) and verb endings (‘I am good at defend the goal’), and varied tenses (‘We went to the park and play soccer’)

  VCEALL390 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALC376

  Write simple factual texts

  Elaborations

  • writing a small range of factual texts, such as reports, procedures, captions for images, explanations
  • including some features of text types, such as introduction, list of requirements, steps beginning with a verb in a procedure
  • handwriting texts or typing a caption for a digital image in a software application

  VCEALC376 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALL338

  Use simple forms of modality

  Elaborations

  • understanding simple modality, such as ‘if’, ‘could’, ‘might’, ‘will’, ‘must’, ‘perhaps’, when listening to others
  • beginning to use modality through verbs (‘It might rain’, ‘You can do it’) and adverbs (‘Perhaps I will go’, ‘This is really tasty’)

  VCEALL338 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL335

  Use some grammatical rules consistently

  Elaborations

  • using some grammatical rules consistently, for example formation of regular plurals, such as ‘friends’ and ‘ideas’, or regular past tense verbs, such as ‘walked’ and ‘helped’
  • over-generalising some grammatical rules, for example in formation of plurals, such as ‘mouses’ and ‘sheeps’, or in forming past tense, such as ‘eated’ and ‘buyed’

  VCEALL335 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features