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That's debatable

  • TLF-IDM025943

Learn how to construct an effective rebuttal for a primary debate.

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Best manners

  • TLF-IDM025963

Develop student confidence in speaking in a debate.

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Being a good commuter

  • TLF-IDM025069

In this series of lessons, students explore the concepts of good and bad behaviours and the consequences of outcomes of those behaviours. The resource focuses on the range of public transport available in the students' locality. Students share experiences of public transport and consider behaviours that would improve travel ...

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Impressive impromptus

  • TLF-IDM025914

Do you think impromptu speaking is impossible? Learn how to captivate your audience and make the most of your speaking opportunities and how to deliver impressive impromptus.

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Discovering definitions

  • TLF-IDM025932

Learn how to define the topic in a primary school debate.

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Meeting at Kamay

  • TLF-IDM025766

This resource explores the perspectives of the Aboriginal people of Kamay Botany Bay and the men aboard the HMB Endeavour upon their meeting in 1770. It aims to help students understand the history of Australia's Aboriginal peoples and why stories of the past are important to all of us. This resource is one part of the ...

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Perspectives on Kamay

  • TLF-IDM025823

This resource explores the perspectives of the Aboriginal people of Kamay Botany Bay and the men aboard the HMB Endeavour upon their meeting in 1770. It will also help students to understand the history of Australia's Aboriginal peoples and why their stories of the past are equally important to hear. Note to Aboriginal ...

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Characterisation in debates

  • TLF-IDM025953

Students learn how to use characterisation and descriptive language in debating.

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BTN: Public speaking

  • TLF-IDM015660

How do you feel about making a speech in public? If you think it's pretty scary you're not alone. Find out ways to make speaking in public easier. See how some students have gone about it, using the movie 'The King's Speech' as inspiration.

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Heywire: Asian and Australian: it's easy to be me

  • TLF-IDM018062

Many Australians are members of two cultures: the culture of their homes and the culture of society at large. In this Heywire clip, learn about the experiences of Michael Lam, whose Vietnamese Australian family lives in Townsville, Queensland.<br /><br />Could you write or record a story about yourself and/or your community? ...

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Introduction to Food Security

  • TLF-IDM019365

This is a video that defines and explores the concept of food security using animated illustrations, spoken commentary, and pauses for discussion. Identifying the accelerating growth of population and the proportion of people who are chronically hungry, it provides the United Nation's definition of food security and its ...

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Australia's Trade through Time

  • TLF-IDM025126

Using an interactive timeline created by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, this Teacher guide provides 12 series of learning experiences that engage students in the analysis and interpretation of data about Australian trade from 1900 to the present day. Students study videos, tables, images and texts in order ...

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How to use rhetoric to get what you want

  • TLF-IDM021379

This short video for students describes the fundamentals of rhetoric and shares some tips for appealing to an audience's ethos, logos and pathos in your speech.

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Considering responsibility in debates

  • TLF-IDM025965

Students learn how to discuss responsibility when debating.

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Marvellous mechanisms

  • TLF-IDM025959

Students develop skills in how to use mechanisms in a debate.

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Commemorating the ANZAC legend

  • TLF-IDM021619

This integrated lesson sequence will allow students to explore how and why people choose to remember significant events of the past, specifically Anzac Day and the Legend of the ANZACs.

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Painting pictures with words

  • TLF-IDM025946

Learn about the art of performance poetry and compose your own slam poem.

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Different views

  • TLF-IDM025767

This resource will encourage students to develop their understanding of the first contact of the Aboriginal people of Kamay Botany Bay and the men aboard the HMB Endeavour in 1770. This resource is one part of the 'Endeavour – eight days in Kamay' resource.

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Radio National: Gender convergence in teenager swearing

  • TLF-IDM015889

Explore how the use of swearing by teenagers is changing. Maria Zijlstra talks to Mike Thelwall, Professor of Information Science at the University of Wolverhampton, about the upsurge in swearing on social networking sites, especially among girls. He contends that, in the UK in particular, swearing is losing its shock value ...

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Big Ideas: Evolving English and the role of social media

  • TLF-IDM015587

How many times have you heard teenagers berated for using the term 'like'? Yet this term has existed at least since 1586 when the term, 'Yon man is like out of his mind' was written into history. The truth is, our language is constantly evolving, with new words added, others dying off and some resurfacing again. In this ...

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