Subject Code: 1ENGC
Length of course: Semester
Credit points: 10 points

Recommended Background: Satisfactory completion of English A

Other Advice: English C at Stage 1 will prepare students for English at Stage 2.

Course Outline:
The study of English provides students with a focus for informed and effective participation in education, training, the workplace and their personal environment.

Students read, view, write and compose, listen and speak, and use information and communication technologies in appropriate ways for different purposes.

This subject leads to English at Stage 2. There is an emphasis on responding to texts, creating texts and an intertextual study. Students critically and creatively engage with a variety of types of texts including novels, film, media, poetry and drama texts.

Topics:
Emphasis will be placed on the development of students’ literacy, negotiation and organisational skills. They will produce texts in written, oral or multimodal form. In particular they will:
  • read closely, view and respond to a variety of texts
  • complete responses to texts
  • complete responses demonstrating a range of styles for different purposes
  • participate in a range of oral language activities with at least one being formally assessed
  • complete the Intertextual Study. Students will complete an investigation revealing an understanding of the links between at least two texts connected by similarity or difference, and present their findings in written, oral or multimodal form.

Assessment:
  • Responding to Texts 40%
  • Creating Texts 40%
  • Intertextual Study 20%

Additional Costs:
Nil