AC9E9LY07 Year 9 English

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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 purpose and audience, using language features, literary devices and features of voice such as volume, tone, pitch and pace, and organising, expanding and developing ideas in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical

Elaborations

• 1 using graphics and text animations to accompany spoken text; for example, presenting a news item suitable for a current affairs program that uses images with spoken text to influence a viewer’s response
• 2 selecting features of voice such as tone, volume, pitch and pace for their specific effects to create tone or to persuade an audience
• 3 choosing text structures and adapting literary devices such as similes, metaphors and personification to meet the perceived needs of an audience when debating a topic, creating a voiceover for a media presentation or presenting a seminar
• 4 collaborating with peers to develop imaginative recreations of part of a text or to represent a key idea in a text

Related Achievement Standards