Dynamic English Skills for the Australian Curriculum is a unique interactive online resource that combines the teaching content of the popular skills-based Essential English Skills for the Australian Curriculum Second Edition with interactive activities, a range of rich digital learning experiences and a powerful Learning Management System.

Dynamic English Skills for the Australian Curriculum offers:

• explicit teaching pages with detailed explanations of key concepts that make use of visual learning techniques to support independent learning in the classroom or at home.
• a multilevel approach to key language and literacy skills, caters to the different learning abilities in the classroom and assists teachers in matching tasks to the skill of their students.
• auto-marked questions that allow students and their teachers to check their learning as they progress through the course. Open-ended teacher-marked questions are also included for areas where higher-order thinking is required (suggested answers included in the Teacher Edition).
• fully integrated offline and online tasks, plus Scorcher, that encourage students to further extend their own language and literacy development.
• a powerful Learning Management System for teachers that combines task management tools, a test generator, readymade tests and comprehensive student and whole-class reporting tools.

www.cambridge.edu.au/dynamicenglish

About the authors

How to use this book

Using Digital Technology for English skills

Acknowledgements

LANGUAGE

PART 1 Grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary

Unit 1 Spelling: tricky words

Unit 2 Spelling: foreign words

Unit 3 Spelling: Latin and Greek origins

Unit 4 Grammar revision

Unit 5 Fixing syntax problems

Unit 6 Formal and informal language style

Unit 7 Punctuation revision

Unit 8 Vocabulary: cultural literacy

Unit 9 Vocabulary: homophones, synonyms and antonyms

Unit 10 Vocabulary: literary and medical words

Unit 11 Vocabulary: legal and political words

LITERACY

PART 2 Reading and comprehension

Unit 12 Reading short fiction

Unit 13 Reading novels

Unit 14 Reading plays

Unit 15 Reading graphic novels

Unit 16 Reading newspapers: facts

Unit 17 Reading newspapers: opinions

Unit 18 Reading personal texts

Unit 19 Reading reflective texts

Unit 20 Reading interpretations of and responses to literature

Unit 21 Viewing film texts

PART 3 Writing and editing

Unit 22 Writing short fiction

Unit 23 Writing plays

Unit 24 Writing text responses

Unit 25 Writing reviews

Unit 26 Writing reports

Unit 27 Writing résumés

Unit 28 Writing arguments

Unit 29 Writing comparisons

Unit 30 Writing speeches

Unit 31 Writing personal and descriptive pieces

Unit 32 Writing creative responses

Unit 33 Acknowledging sources and compiling a bibliography

Unit 34 Editing and proofreading

Glossary