Length: Full Year

Recommended background: Successful completion of Year 9 English

Content:

This is a preparatory course that leads to SACE Stage 1 Essential English. The focus is on everyday texts, workplace document, and developing oral and written communication skills.

Students who are recommended for and select this course include those students who have chosen subject packages based around a desired future pathway, such as hospitality, construction, the seafood industry and community services.

In Essential English, students study film, short prose texts, print texts, digital texts and construct responses to these texts, as well as construct everyday texts, web pages and other multimodal texts. Students also produce written texts in a variety of forms across genres such as recount, response, narrative and exposition.

Assessment:

Students’ performance will be determined according to the subject’s Achievement Standards as outlined in the framework of the Australian Curriculum. Grades A to E will be used for reporting purposes. This includes assessment of achievement in listening, reading, viewing, speaking, writing and creating.