AC9E8LY07 Year 8 English

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 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.

plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for audiences and purposes, selecting language features, literary devices, visual features and features of voice to suit formal or informal situations, and organising and developing ideas in texts in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical

Elaborations

• 1 integrating multimodal features in a spoken presentation to support the audience’s understanding
• 2 choosing vocabulary and sentence structures, and using literary devices such as similes, metaphors and personification to meet perceived audience needs; for example, when debating a topic or creating a voiceover for a media presentation
• 3 selecting features of voice, such as tone, volume, pitch and pace, with particular attention to the effects these may have on audience reaction and acceptance of the ideas presented
• 4 collaborating with peers to develop a persuasive advertising campaign about a contemporary issue

Related Achievement Standards