English / Year 9 / Language / Language for interaction

• TLF-IDM025970

Students learn about, compose and perform slam poetry.

• TLF-IDM020749

This resource embeds the use of online collaboration tools and 21st century learning skills in a Stage 5 English project. Students explore the English textual concepts as they collaborate to research and create a personal story. Tasks include analysing a variety of personal stories told in different media and exploring ...

• TLF-IDM018022

Gough Whitlam is the only Australian prime minister to have been sacked from office - along with his entire government. After learning of his dismissal, Mr Whitlam addressed the Australian public and uttered a line that has resonated throughout Australian politics since 1975. Words can be immensely powerful and, as you ...

• TLF-IDM017843

A national survey in the 1960s indicated that the use of spoken English was surprisingly similar throughout Australia. This challenged the notion of 'regionalism', which suggested that people from different places would use language in different ways. In this clip, two leading academics discuss regionalism and suggest that ...

• 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-IDA006161

Based on a New York Times article about what life is like for teenage girls in the era of social media, this lesson plan generates conversations about the issues raised, including canvassing healthy phone and social media habits.

• TLF-IDA004879

The YeS Project is a workshop-based program supporting young people to act as positive leaders and effective friends in all their social spaces, especially online. The resource enables students to learn about their digital communities, and to aim to make improvements to online safety practices and cultures within their ...

• TLF-IDA004875

The award-winning short film Tagged is supported by teaching resources that encourage young people to reflect on the real life consequences of cyberbullying, sharing intimate images, and a negative digital reputation.

• TLF-IDA004392

This unit of work has been written to support the accounts of the Stolen Generations as told to Doris Pilkington by members of her family in Western Australia in the 1930s. The memoir imagines the historical experiences of Indigenous Australians prior to contact with European colonists and the experiences and consequences ...

• TLF-IDA003881

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Year 9 English. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an authentic representation of ...