AC9E10LA06 – Year 10 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas

This Content Descriptor from Year 10 English provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

• 1 considering how nominalisation affects the way in which events are constructed and explained, making some information more explicit than other information
• 2 analysing how logical relations between ideas are built up by combining main with subordinate clauses indicating cause, result, manner, concession, condition, and so on; for example, “Although the poet was not generally well received by critics during her life (concession), her reputation grew substantially after her death.”
• 3 considering how abstraction in a noun group allows for greater generalisation of complex ideas in a sentence; for example, “He focused on the political, religious, social and economic elements of the society in his thesis.”

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