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 and punctuation

Unit 1 Nouns and articles

Unit 2 Pronouns

Unit 3 Verbs and verb tenses

Unit 4 Adjectives

Unit 5 Adverbs and adverbial phrases

Unit 6 Sentences

Unit 7 Clauses

Unit 8 Active and passive voice

Unit 9 Punctuation

Unit 10 More about punctuation

PART 2 Spelling

Unit 11 Word origins

Unit 12 Prefixes

Unit 13 Suffixes Essential English Skills

for the Australian Curriculum, Second Edition

Unit 14 Adding -or, -er and –ar

Unit 15 Words ending in -ible and -able

Unit 16 Words ending in -ery, -ary and -ory

Unit 17 Words ending in -and, -ance, -ent, -ence and -ense

Unit 18 Is it -tion or -sion?

Unit 19 Adding -ous and -ious

Unit 20 Words ending in -l and -ll

Unit 21 Words ending in -r and -rr

Unit 22 Silent letters

PART 3 Vocabulary

Unit 23 Synomyns and autonyms

Unit 24 The English lexicon

Unit 25 Building a vocabulary for comparing and contrasting

Unit 26 Famous phrases and proverbs

LITERACY

PART 4 Reading, writing and comprehension

Unit 27 Images and diagrams

Unit 28 Implications

Unit 29 Deductions

Unit 30 Analysis and synthesis

Unit 31 Argument

Unit 32 Bias

Unit 33 Values and viewpoints in writing

Unit 34 Persuasive language techniques

Unit 35 Form or text type

Unit 36 Genre

Unit 37 Style

PART 5 Writing and editing

Unit 38 Grammar in use

Unit 39 Varying sentences and writing

Unit 40 Proofreading

Unit 41 Formatting and publishing using

ICT

Unit 42 Evaluating texts

Glossary