QCE Essential English Applied (Essential) Units 3&4 Notes

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1. Essential English in 2026: course, CIA and criteria3 · Course and CIA

   Essential English in 2026: course, CIA and criteria

2. Identities, places, events and concepts in media3 · Representations

   Identities, places, events and concepts in media

3. Explain the ideas that influence meaning3 · Opinions and ideas

   Explain the ideas that influence meaning

4. Purpose, audience, context and reader positioning3 · Audience and purpose

   Purpose, audience, context and reader positioning

5. Read articles, blogs, interviews and transcripts3 · Written media

   Read articles, blogs, interviews and transcripts

6. Explain vocabulary, imagery, voice and rhetoric3 · Language features

   Explain vocabulary, imagery, voice and rhetoric

7. Explain sequence, contrast, framing and endings3 · Text structures

   Explain sequence, contrast, framing and endings

8. Read images, symbols, gaze and visual perspective3 · Visual language

   Read images, symbols, gaze and visual perspective

9. Read posters, advertisements and infographics3 · Visual structures

   Read posters, advertisements and infographics

10. Select evidence and develop a clear explanation3 · Evidence and explanation

    Select evidence and develop a clear explanation

11. Prepare a seen text and respond to unseen questions3 · CIA preparation

    Prepare a seen text and respond to unseen questions

12. Analyse representations of the internet3 · Internet representations

    Analyse representations of the internet

13. Analyse representations of print media3 · Print media representations

    Analyse representations of print media

14. IA 1: shape a spoken response that influences3 · Spoken response

    IA 1: shape a spoken response that influences

15. Recognise representations in contemporary popular culture4 · Popular culture

    Recognise representations in contemporary popular culture

16. Explain choices in screen, spoken and written culture4 · Popular culture analysis

    Explain choices in screen, spoken and written culture

17. IA 3: integrate spoken and visual modes4 · Multimodal response

    IA 3: integrate spoken and visual modes

18. IA 4: construct an Australian representation4 · Australian representations

    IA 4: construct an Australian representation

19. IA 4: shape an authentic written genre4 · Written response

    IA 4: shape an authentic written genre

20. Edit for clarity and act on descriptive feedback3 and 4 · Language control

    Edit for clarity and act on descriptive feedback