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Point of view: witness reports

Point of view: witness reports

TLF ID L936

Read and listen to three witness reports of a skateboard crash. Notice that each report presents a different point of view. Look at a model report to see how past tense verbs and opinion adjectives shape the point of view in a text. Build reports by choosing verbs and adverbs to reflect each witness's point of view. Include the place and times, sequence of events, inferences and facial expressions.

Tags: english points of view
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Educational details

Educational value
  • Highlights grammatical features involved in expression of a point of view.
  • Provides opportunities to differentiate between points of view in factual recounts.
  • Tests understanding of the role of verbs and opinion adverbs through cloze activities.
  • Includes an option to print witness reports compiled by the student.
Year level

4; 5; 6

Topics Text structure Verbs Literary devices Social settings (Narratives) Text types Tense (Grammar) Text purpose
Learning area
  • English

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Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Fraynework Multimedia
  • Organization: Fraynework Multimedia
  • Description: Technical implementer
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.fraynework.com.au/
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Person: Marcelle Holliday
  • Description: Script writer
  • Person: Marcelle Holliday
  • Description: Subject matter expert
  • Person: Professor Len Unsworth
  • Description: Educational validator
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
  • Publisher
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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  • Hearing independence
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Learning Resource Type
  • Interactive
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  • © Education Services Australia Ltd, 2016, except where indicated under Acknowledgements. This material may be used in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia (CC BY-SA 3.0 AU) licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/au/.