- to establish and maintain relationships and routines in school, community and work situations
- to converse, discuss, compare, argue, evaluate and justify points of view about feelings, interests, preferences, ideas, experiences and plans
- to communicate a range of more complex messages, both oral and written, for different audiences and purposes
- to participate with others in planning, developing, organising, carrying out and evaluating more complex and extended events
- to obtain and provide objects, services and information in a wider and more complex range of real and simulated situations
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- to provide or find out, select, analyse, organise and present information on familiar and unfamiliar topics
- to interpret and use more extensive and complex information through processes or activities such as ordering, describing, defining, classifying, comparing, explaining, justifying, predicting, inferring, summarising, synthesising, evaluating and drawing conclusions
- to identify and discuss critically ideas, issues, themes, arguments, views and attitudes in spoken and written texts, make connections, refine or generate ideas, and express or apply them
- to identify and define more complex problems from given information, consider related factors, explore and discuss options, solve the problems, evaluate and justify the solutions, or offer alternatives
- to develop, refine and re-organise ideas, and to improve expression by making appropriate revisions to one’s own written texts independently and collaboratively
- to understand how the English language works in a wide range of contexts and how more complex texts are organised and expressed; and apply this understanding to one’s learning and use of the language
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- to develop a response to a wider range of imaginative or literary texts through activities such as:
- participating in the presentation of such texts
- identifying, interpreting and discussing themes
- appreciating the use of language including the use of rhythm and rhyme, other sound patterns and rhetorical devices
- to respond to characters, events, issues and themes in imaginative and other narrative texts through oral, written and performative means such as:
- making predictions and inferences
- analysing the actions and motivations of characters and the significance of events
- relating the characters and events to one’s own experiences
- articulating and presenting one’s views and feelings
- putting oneself in the roles and situations in the story
- participating in dramatic presentations and reflecting on the way in which authors use language to create effects
- to give expression to imaginative ideas through oral, written and performative means such as:
- reading aloud and solo or choral speaking
- role-plays, dramatic presentations or improvisation
- providing oral and written descriptions (or perhaps drawings) to illustrate one’s personal response to a situation, an object or a character, or one’s analysis of them
- writing journals or diaries
- writing stories with a sound awareness of purpose and appropriate development of plot and character
- creating poems and lyrics
- creating short dramatic episodes
- to give expression to one’s experience through activities such as providing oral and written descriptions of feelings and events, dramatic presentations or monologues, incorporating where appropriate reflections on their significance
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