English / Year 9 / Language / Expressing and developing ideas

• TLF-IDM016280

A web page resource with information, teacher guides and activities on types of sentences to support the Australian Curriculum in English K–10. It has detailed activities, links to resources and quizzes.

• 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 ...

• TLF-IDM015518

The English language is full of strange contradictions and vanishing words. Have you ever wondered why we sometimes put words together that contradict each other, such as 'pretty awful' or 'terribly good'? If we can be 'ruthless', can we be 'ruthly' as well? Watch as Professor Kate Burridge explains these curious irregularities ...

• TLF-IDM021378

This resource is a revision for students of some of the rules for punctuation and spelling, with examples. It covers sentences, paragraphing, apostrophes, punctuating dialogue, ellipses, brackets, titles, acronyms, ampersands, commonly confused words and IM and Text Speak.

• TLF-IDM010618

This is a multilayered resource about prefixes and suffixes. It includes a video set in the workplace and two multiple choice quizzes. There are also four factsheets and five worksheets that provide an explanation of prefixes and suffixes and exercises in using them. The factsheets, worksheets and quizzes are pitched at ...

• TLF-IDM013814

This is a web page consisting of an overview and two illustrations of practice in a support unit on the GeogSpace website, a resource for teachers. Illustration 1 examines the processes of reading and writing using a variety of texts and resources. Illustration 2 supports the development of required knowledge and understandings ...

• TLF-IDM010630

This is a wordsearch game about the common letter pattern 'ould'. Students search a grid of letters to find ten examples of words containing the 'ould' letter pattern that are written horizontally, vertically or diagonally on the grid. Students can choose to play the game against the clock. An example of the game is provided ...

• TLF-IDM011120

This is a single-screen information sheet about nine silent letters - silent n, g, b, k, t, h, w, l and u. The information sheet includes a definition of silent letters and an explanation of their origin and how some came to be silent when in earlier periods they were pronounced. It provides three examples for each silent ...

• TLF-IDM010623

This is a multilayered resource about common letter patterns. It includes a video set in the workplace. There are also two factsheets and four worksheets about syllabification, when to use 'c' for the 's' sound and how to choose and spell word endings. The resource also includes ten wordsearch games using common letter ...

• TLF-IDM011126

This is a single-screen worksheet about knowing when to use the '-el' or '-le' word endings. The worksheet provides two activities. In the first, students choose the word with the correct spelling from a pair, for example 'simple', 'simpel', to complete a sentence correctly. In the second activity they unjumble letters ...