AC9E6LA06 Year 6 English

This Content Descriptor from Year 6 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.

understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups

Elaborations

• 1 knowing that the simple present tense is typically used to talk about present states; for example, “He lives in Darwin.” or actions that happen regularly in the present; for example, “He watches television every night.” or that represent “timeless” happenings, in information reports; for example, “Bears hibernate in winter.”
• 2 knowing that there are various ways in English to refer to future time: using the auxiliary “will”; for example, “She will call you tomorrow.”, using the present tense; for example, “Tomorrow, I leave for Hobart.” and using adverbials of time; for example, “She arrives in the morning.”
• 3 using precise verbs; for example, “slice”, “dice”, “fillet” and “segment” rather than general words; for example, “cut”

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