English / Year 8 / Literacy / Interacting with others

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Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content, including multimodal elements, to reflect a diversity of viewpoints (ACELY1731)

Elaborations
  • creating texts that express views and values other than students’ own
  • researching subject matter on social issues and/or relationships and presenting ideas in particular ways to appeal to different audiences
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
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Oral presentations

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Interactive Resource

Syllabus bites: Visual literacy

  • TLF-IDM016123

A resource with information, study guides and resources on visual literacy to support the English K-10 Australian Curriculum in English. It provides a series of activities, guidelines and tasks about visual texts from a variety of sources. Contains writing scaffolds, templates and proformas for responding and composing ...

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Origin Energy for Schools

  • TLF-IDM017637

This is a valuable website containing comprehensive teacher and student cross-curricular teaching and learning resource for years 3 to 8 that focuses on the themes of energy, energy management and the Earth’s renewable energy sources. There are three teaching units on the themes of ‘Energy introduction’, ‘Energy management’ ...

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Origin Energy for Schools – Years 7 - 8

  • TLF-IDM017636

This is a comprehensive teacher and student cross-curricular resource that focuses on Earth’s resources as being renewable or non-renewable. The concept of energy efficiency is considered as are the consequences of the enhanced greenhouse effect. The teaching unit ‘Renewable energy’ consists of an introduction to the topic, ...

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The story of 'Waltzing Matilda' and Winton

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What do the words of 'Waltzing Matilda' mean and where did they come from? Find out about 'Waltzing Matilda' and Winton, the town where Banjo Paterson wrote his ballad. Discover what the song means to the town today.

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Representing diversity with Sally Rippin

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How important do you think it is for writers to represent a diversity of experiences and perspectives in their books? What does Sally Rippin say about the world she represents in her stories? Who are the characters she writes and illustrates?

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Creating Digital Stories

  • TLF-IDM016654

This resource focuses on the creation of digital stories for students with supporting activities and links to resources. It has advice and help for students to compose, adapt and publish your digital stories. This resource supports the Australian Curriculum in English K–10.

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Ethical consequences

  • TLF-IDM025071

In this series of lessons, students consider the relationship between public transport and youth disadvantage. They explore a number of hypothetical prospective government-sponsored transport projects and the reasons for prioritisation of infrastructure projects based on community need and public advocacy. Students analyse ...

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Book Review

  • TLF-IDM021329

This resource provides advice to students on how to present a three-minute book review, with advice on how to write the review, and how to present it orally.

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Hitting the funny bone with comedian Josh Thomas

  • TLF-IDM018033

Josh Thomas is one of Australia's favourite comedians. What is it about his routines that keep his audience in stitches? Sit back and have a giggle as you investigate the nature of humour in this clip.

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At home in the country

  • TLF-IDM015426

What is the best thing about living on a farm out in the countryside? What is the worst? How does where you live make you the person you are today? Listen to Jane Gould from Boort, finalist of the 2012 Heywire storytelling competition for young people, talk of the connectedness she feels to the land on which she lives.

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Who wants to be a journo?

  • TLF-IDM017801

Learn about being a journalist in this clip from Triple J Hack journalist Sophie McNeill. As you watch, consider the way the clip has been constructed to promote journalism as a career choice to a particular audience.

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Exploring the skills of a radio presenter

  • TLF-IDM015643

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a DJ at a radio station? Watch this clip to find out about a bunch of young people who are doing just that. While you're watching, we'll explore some of the skills you might need to present your own radio show.

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Improve our town: arguments: assessment

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Test your understanding of the arguments concerning a community issue. Help a local council decide on a development proposal. Determine whether the best use of a demolition site in the centre of town will be for a park or for a mall. Talk to people in the local community to find out their opinions. Restate the reasons given ...

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Strictly Speaking

  • TLF-IDM016148

A public speaking resource including videos of student speeches, interviews, adjudicator comments, adults talking about their public speaking experiences, and support activities.

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Soundscapes: you call that music?

  • TLF-IDM013758

This is a resource that focuses on creating soundscapes and music using Audacity software. It includes two videos that provide a guide to creating compositions from pre-recorded sounds and applying techniques to edit and manipulate sounds for different effects; teacher notes; four activity sheets, including a guide to presenting ...

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Refugees and migration: seeking refuge - the journey

  • TLF-IDM011637

This is an interactive resource about refugees and asylum seekers. It contain sections about the journey refugees take including the reasons for leaving their home, their physical journey and the process of seeking refuge and resettlement. The resource is presented as a unit of work with activities aimed at developing the ...

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Passionate podcasting

  • TLF-IDM013759

This is a resource that focuses on creating podcasts. It includes a video of podcaster and broadcaster Jenny O'Keefe talking through the process of creating a podcast using the free software Audacity; teacher notes with suggestions for extension activities in other learning areas; three activity sheets; two templates that ...

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SeeMe: The media, my world and me

  • TLF-IDM010966

The SeeMe website is designed for year 8 students and their teachers. It promotes a positive body image and tackles idealised media portrayals of beauty and gender, and the influence they have on young people. There are five modules and a digital interactive titled 'Photoshock', which explores the ways images are digitally ...

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Climbing Mount Batur: using texts

  • TLF-IDL6309

Climb Mt Batur on the island of Bali. Interact with your local guide and locals, and respond to their comments and questions in a culturally appropriate way. Identify the polite ways to engage with locals to find out more about Mt Batur. Learn ways to speak and respond that respect local people and Balinese beliefs and ...

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Clause for concern in closing the gap

  • TLF-IDM018558

Clever speakers do more than just use well-known persuasive techniques such as rhetorical questions and emotive language. They shape the very structure of their sentences to focus the audience's attention on the ideas in particular clauses. It is a subtle but powerful technique to manipulate listeners. This clip is last ...

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Starting Smart: capturing the moment: persuade, explain and entertain

  • TLF-IDM009229

This curriculum package provides teachers of students in years 7-9 with background information, seven lesson plans, activities and resources. The aim is to develop and extend students' knowledge of visual texts, specifically nature documentaries. The lessons model a range of teaching and learning strategies to explore the ...

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Starting Smart: effective energies: explain and inform

  • TLF-IDM009228

This curriculum package provides teachers of students in years 7-9 with background information, ten lesson plans, activities and resources designed to develop knowledge about explanations. The lessons model a range of teaching and learning strategies to explore the purpose, organisation, vocabulary and language structures ...

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