Essential English Skills for the Australian Curriculum Year 10 Second Edition Workbook (print)

The second edition of the popular Essential English Skills for the Australian Curriculum series has been updated for today’s students. Providing support for differentiated learning and featuring flexible ICT tasks that encourage language and literacy development, the series is ideal for both classroom use and homework.

• The 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. Three levels of carefully graded questions (Test yourself, Extend yourself and Challenge yourself) give every student an achievable starting point and the opportunity to enhance their skills.
• New text extracts and examples of classic and popular texts provide the very best support for today’s students, while covering the requirements of the Australian Curriculum and the cross curricula priorities.
• Fully integrated tech challenges and online tasks encourage students to explore the impact of technology on their own language and literacy development. Each workbook includes a dedicated introduction to ICT in the classroom (“Using Digital Technology for English skills”) suggesting applications that can be used with the workbook.
• Solutions are available for teachers in downloadable PDF format. To access, teachers must activate the unique 16-character code provided by your Cambridge Education Resource Consultant in your Cambridge GO teacher account. Contact us for more details.

If you are looking for a digital option covering English skills, Dynamic English Skills for the Australian Curriculum (available separately)  provides a digital solution with interactive activities, a range of rich digital content and a powerful Learning Management System.

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

Essential English Skills

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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