Your students may be anxious about being the first cohort to sit the Common Internal Assessment (CIA) for Essential English in Queensland.

Here are three things they can do to build their confidence:

1. Practise explaining. Look at a range of texts and practise the key skill of explaining using complete sentences and paragraphs. 
2. Explore the concept of influence. Examine how words and images attempt to influence our views. 
3. Build knowledge of local and global issues. Look at examples of issues that may affect students’ own community or the global community and explore how issues are represented.

Prepare your students further with the dedicated chapter, Investigating the CIA, in Cambridge Essential English for Queensland Units 3&4:

• set the CIA Practice activities to give students multiple examples for practising their writing 
• encourage them to evaluate their answers against the suggested responses provided in the digital book 
• extend capable students with tasks involving investigation 
• engage all students with the range of activities so they can approach the unseen texts in the CIA with confidence.
  
  

View Cambridge Essential English for Queensland resources here.