WACE English as an Additional Language or Dialect Year 12 Notes

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1. The Listening section: format, two hearings and the order of questionsListening · Section One - Listening

   Exam technique

2. Note-taking from lectures, interviews and speechesListening · Section One - Listening

   Note-taking

3. Answering listening questions to the mark: list, identify, outline, describe, explainListening · Section One - Listening

   Answering to the mark

4. Beyond the facts: metaphor, speaker attitude, multiple-choice and table itemsListening · Section One - Listening

   Inference and figurative language

5. Short-answer reading: finding the answer in the right textReading · Section Two - Reading and viewing

   Comprehension

6. Fact and opinion, perspective and choosing supporting quotationsReading · Section Two - Reading and viewing

   Fact, opinion and perspective

7. How non-fiction texts persuade: expert voices, statistics and language choicesReading · Section Two - Reading and viewing

   Persuasive techniques

8. Reading graphs, tables and visual texts for findingsReading · Section Two - Reading and viewing

   Visual texts

9. The synthesis question: finding three main ideas common to the textsReading · Section Two - Reading and viewing

   Synthesis

10. Writing the synthesis: own words, thematic paragraphs and own knowledgeReading · Section Two - Reading and viewing

    Synthesis

11. Speech conventions for a named audience and purposeWriting · Section Three - Extended writing (speech and essay)

    Speech

12. Persuasive and rhetorical devices in your own speechWriting · Section Three - Extended writing (speech and essay)

    Speech

13. Unpacking a speech prompt and writing it in 35 minutesWriting · Section Three - Extended writing (speech and essay)

    Speech

14. Unpacking the essay question: every key word, two textsWriting · Section Three - Extended writing (speech and essay)

    Essay

15. Essay structure: thesis, topic and tieback sentences, real cohesionWriting · Section Three - Extended writing (speech and essay)

    Essay

16. Using two studied texts as evidence without retellingWriting · Section Three - Extended writing (speech and essay)

    Essay

17. Grammar for high marks: complex sentences, modality, nominalisation and voiceLanguage · Language table: grammatical, lexical and sociolinguistic competence

    Grammatical competence

18. Vocabulary, register, idiom and spellingLanguage · Language table: grammatical, lexical and sociolinguistic competence

    Lexical and sociolinguistic competence

19. Unit 3 contexts: First Nations peoples, migration, identity, commonality and difference, global AustraliaContexts · Unit 3 - Australia as a cultural community

    Australia as a cultural community

20. Unit 4 contexts: the power of language, language and culture, contemporary issues, challengesContexts · Unit 4 - Language and empowerment

    Language and empowerment