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• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway B: Mid immersion - EAL: Level B2 description

  The Level B2 curriculum develops students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to their spoken English. Students learn to negotiate simple exchanges in English, combining their understanding of both verbal and non-verbal language. They refine and further develop a wide range of fundamental...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway B: Mid immersion | EAL

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway B: Mid immersion - EAL: Level B1 description

  The curriculum for Level B1 supports students to develop their communication skills both verbally and non-verbally. Students follow simple instructions, answer predictable questions, make basic requests and express needs simply. Through active participation in conversations, students learn about...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway B: Mid immersion | EAL

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway C: Late immersion - EAL: Level C1 description

  The curriculum for Level C1 supports students to develop their communication skills both verbally and non-verbally. It provides a range of opportunities for students to interact with their peers. Through active participation in conversations, students learn about the ways to apply formulaic language...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway C: Late immersion | EAL

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway C: Late immersion - EAL: Level CL description

  The Level CL curriculum supports students as they develop basic knowledge, understanding and skills in English. Through immersion in English, students build their capacity to participate in routine and familiar exchanges in English with their peers. The curriculum covers the practising of pronunciation...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway C: Late immersion | EAL

• VCEALC005

  Understand a simple spoken text

  Elaborations

  • listening to a long text with visual support, such as instructions for and a demonstration of a game or art activity
  • recognising familiar vocabulary, for example animal names, colours, time markers
  • identifying single items of information from short spoken texts, such as a number, colour, name
  • answering specific questions about the spoken text that are based on familiar question stems such as ‘Who’, ‘Where’, ‘When’

  VCEALC005 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALL255

  Use a small range of basic verb forms accurately

  Elaborations

  • matching simple verb tense to time words, such as ‘Yesterday we went …’, ‘Now we can eat lunch’, ‘Tomorrow we will go …’
  • maintaining consistent tense when describing events in the past, present and future, for example ‘I walked to his house and we played games’
  • using ‘no’ or ‘not’ with verbs, adjectives and nouns to express negative forms, such as ‘Not play’, ‘I no sad’, ‘Me no’

  VCEALL255 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL559

  Use simple cohesive devices to link spoken text

  Elaborations

  • using some coordinating conjunctions (such as ‘and’, ‘but’) to connect clauses, for example ‘I caught a bus and then walked’
  • using some common subordinating conjunctions (such as ‘after’, ‘because’) to connect clauses, for example ‘After we ate lunch, we played a game’
  • using personal pronouns (such as ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘it’) as cohesive devices to connect ideas in spoken text, for example ‘My friend gave me a present. It was a book’

  VCEALL559 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALC776

  Incorporating visual features into texts

  Elaborations

  • creating or adapting a range of visual features such as illustrations, diagrams, graphs, tables, maps
  • referring to images in text, for example ‘Figure 1’, ‘The image shows …’

  VCEALC776 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C4 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALC295

  Use additional information to support simple narrative or recount sentences

  Elaborations

  • drawing illustrations or diagrams to accompany sentences in a narrative or recount
  • using online storyboarding software to create a simple story map to show the events and characters in a narrative

  VCEALC295 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALL788

  Demonstrate control of appropriate grammatical structures that develop the ways to analyse, argue, persuade, describe, classify or explain

  Elaborations

  • varying sentence structures to support the purpose of the text and create interest for the reader, for example including rhetorical questions in an argument, varying sentence length within a paragraph

  VCEALL788 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C4 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL281

  Understand the sequence of key words, phrases or ideas in a familiar text

  Elaborations

  • creating a simple storyboard to show the sequence of ideas from a text
  • filling in missing items from a sequence of key words, phrases or sections from a text

  VCEALL281 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL387

  Use heading and text formats appropriate to the task

  Elaborations

  • using headings to group information in a report, for example ‘Description’, ‘Habitat’, ‘Diet’ for a report on an animal
  • creating a storyboard with images in sequence and text written underneath the relevant image

  VCEALL387 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL448

  Follow direct and indirect speech

  Elaborations

  • understanding the punctuation used to indicate direct speech
  • creating a comic strip or storyboard with speech bubbles based on a passage containing direct or indirect speech

  VCEALL448 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• 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

• English | English as an Additional Language (EAL): Rationale and Aims

  Rationale

  The English as an Additional Language (EAL) curriculum is central to the learning and development of all young Australians for whom English is not their home language. Through learning EAL, students build their capacity to communicate confidently and effectively. This learning also...

  Overview material | English as an Additional Language (EAL)

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway C: Late immersion - EAL: Level C3 description

  The Level C3 curriculum supports students to expand their knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to their spoken English. At this level, students learn to listen, question and respond in English in a broad range of contexts. Students are provided with a variety of listening and speaking...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway C: Late immersion | EAL

• VCEALC453

  Write narrative texts that maintain a cohesive storyline and characterisation

  Elaborations

  • using a template or model text to write a text that follows a narrative structure
  • constructing a cohesive storyline through the development of a sequence of events and characters
  • creating or adapting a narrative in print or digital form, including visual or multimodal forms

  VCEALC453 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALC652

  Present information in a variety of forms

  Elaborations

  • presenting information in a range of visual forms, such as a table, chart, graph
  • illustrating a narrative to reflect descriptions given in the original text
  • following instructions to create tables, graphs or images in software applications

  VCEALC652 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALC714

  Use visual stimuli to convey information

  Elaborations

  • presenting information in a range of visual forms, such as diagrams, graphs, maps
  • writing a caption or labels to describe an image
  • using software applications to create and format tables, graphs or images

  VCEALC714 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALC351

  Contribute to group activities on shared texts

  Elaborations

  • listening to group discussion, contributing relevant ideas and negotiating responses to the group activity
  • creating shared responses to the text, for example answering questions or jointly writing a short extension to a story

  VCEALC351 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Reading and Viewing | Communication