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Text
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Students are provided with opportunities to:
- Converse, discuss, debate and hypothesise about issues.
- Learn how to present a point of view on an issue and argue a case.
- Engage in debates.
- Use role play to explore spoken language in different contexts.
- Learn how to use appropriate pitch, pace, pause and emphasis in public speaking and performance.
- Recount succintly events and incidents which are heard, seen or read.
- Retell, innovate on and develop stroies heard and read.
- Learn how to use terminology appropriate for talking about different types of texts.
- Use visual elements such as gesture and facial expression to communicate meaning.
- Explore ways in which voice, sound effects, music and visual elements contribute to meaning i
spoken texts.
- Learn how to give and follow a set of instructions.
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Strategies
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Students are provided with opportunities to:
- Listen and respond to points of view presented by others in group and class discussion.
- Learn how to use questions effectively to interview, research, confirm and challenge ideas and
information.
- Clarify thinking through asking questions, rephrasing and restating ideas and issues.
- Learn how to select, sequence and organise subject matter for prepared spoken presentations.
- Recite poems and rhymes individually, in chorus and in multivoice recitations.
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Grammatical
Patterns
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Students are provided with opportunities to:
- Explore a variety of clause structures including non-finite clauses.
- Explore ways of building up noun groups with embedded phrases and clauses.
- Learn to recognise and use Generalised and Specific nouns.
- Explore different patterns in verb groups.
- Experiment with ways of representing Circumstances.
- Experiment with different clause structures used to make statements, give commands and ask
questions.
- Experiment with ways of expressing modality.
- Experiment with the components of Theme position in clauses.
- Explore textual cohesion established by cohesive ties, Reference chains and lexical chains.
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