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English / Year 6 / Language / Language for expressing and developing ideas
Curriculum content descriptions
understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups (AC9E6LA06)
Elaborations
- knowing that the simple present tense is typically used to talk about present states; for example, “He lives in Darwin.” or actions that happen regularly in the present; for example, “He watches television every night.” or that represent “timeless” happenings, in information reports; for example, “Bears hibernate in winter.”
- knowing that there are various ways in English to refer to future time: using the auxiliary “will”; for example, “She will call you tomorrow.”, using the present tense; for example, “Tomorrow, I leave for Hobart.” and using adverbials of time; for example, “She arrives in the morning.”
- using precise verbs; for example, “slice”, “dice”, “fillet” and “segment” rather than general words; for example, “cut”
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Tense (Grammar), Verbs