EDLA519 Assessment 2 Template 3 Language Demands

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What spoken
language
demands will
there be?

What listening
tasks will
there be?

What texts will

the students
be reading?

What written
text types will
there be?

What aspects of
grammar will the
students be
expected to use?

Teacher led
discussion
adaptation
Working in
groups
collaborative
talk.
Survey
responses.

Listen to teacher
discussion.
Listen to other
Ss express
survey results.

Research
material to find
out which texts
are adaptations.

Adaptations
descriptions of
novels and films.

Language concepts
relating to
adaptations, eg.
prepositions such
as adapted from,
by, to.

Teacher led
discussion
brainstorming
plot.
Think pair share
discussion of
blurb
language.
Teacher led
discussion
word bank
development.
Group
collaborative
talk.

Youtube clip
trailer. Listen to
teacher. Listen
to peers
describe
language
features.

Novel blurb. Film

synopsis.

Novel. Film
synopsis.

Grammatical words
describing plot.

Plot. Blurb.
Synopsis.

Listening to film
scene and
language and
dialogue used.
Listen to peers
offering words
for word bank.

Studentconstructed
word bank text.
Book excerpts.

Novel.

Using descriptive
language such as
adjectives and
adverbs to
describe characters
in detail.

Unusual
descriptive
vocabulary such
as a woolly
character.

What specific
vocabulary does
the topic
require
students to
know?
Definition and
understanding of
Adaptation.

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Teacher-led
discussion on
structure of a
descriptive
section of a
novel.
Reading book
excerpt aloud as
a class.
Teacher-led
discussion on
language
features of a
screenplay.

Listening to film
scene. Listen to
teachers
questioning and
peer responses.

Novel excerpt.

Novel.

Punctuation used
when writing
dialogue.
Descriptive
language of
setting, character
and action.

Setting
descriptions such
as dank.

Watching and
listening to film
scene.
Listen to teacher
describe
features.
Listening to
teacher and
peers ideas.

Screenplay
excerpt.

Screenplay.

Screenplay
directions such as
close-up,
exterior.

Novel excerpt.
Screenplay
excerpt.

Novel and
screenplay.

Concentration on
screenplay
metalanguage:
present tense as
opposed to past
tense.
Structure of a text
learning words
that build tension
or emotion or
action such as
adverbs.
Informal language
in novels, both
formal language
and colloquial
dialogue in
screenplays.
Linguistic
structure.
Grammatical words
depicting
characterisation

Dialogue verbs
eg. screeched,
spat.

Teacher-led
discussion on
composing a
scene.
Students reading
aloud.

Working in
groups
collaborative
talk.

Listening to film
scenes during
research time.

Various novels,
films.

Novels, films,
screenplays.

Teacher/student
discussions.

Teacher/student
discussions.

Their own
compositions.

Novel excerpt,
screenplays.

Adverbs such as
wilfully,
uneasily.

Vocabulary
appropriate to the
text-type students
have chosen.

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such as adjectives
and adverbs.
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Teacher/student
discussions.

Teacher/student
discussions.
Peer feedback.

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Working in
groups
collaborative
talk.
Presenting task.

Listening to
peers present
their work.
Listening to
student reenactments of
screenplays.

Their own
compositions.
Peer
compositions.
Teacher
feedback.
Novel excerpt.
Screenplay
excerpt.

Novel excerpt,
screenplays.

Dialogue
conventions,
identifying point of
view.

Vocabulary
appropriate to the
text-type students
have chosen.

Novel excerpt,
screenplays.

Appropriate
feedback that
builds constructive
criticism.

Reflective
vocabulary
experience,
improvement,
realise, purpose,
understanding.