Educators' Guide for Pedagogy and Assessment
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Learning Area: Languages
English > LEVEL 9
Subject Focus: Listening and speaking
1] I can ask and understand detailed questions. I can respond with supplementary questions and evaluate the response.
LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER
2] I can conduct conversations which have complex implications to observe the need to be polite, sensitive and tactful.
COMMUNICATION FOR DIVERSITY
3] I can communicate my thoughts and emotions through a wide variety of media e.g the telephone, and web interaction, using an appropriate tone and style.
COMMUNICATION
4] I can use language in a way that is highly persuasive with the intention of influencing emotions or actions.
INTERPERSONAL
5] I can ask others about themselves and their views, and evaluate their responses according to how they relate to my own views.
COMMUNICATING FOR DIVERSITY
6] I can defend my point of view against reasonable questioning.
LEARNING TO KNOW
7] I can communicate effectively in unfamiliar situations using a variety of media.
8] I can adapt my use of language to various media, observing the emerging etiquette and grammar of new media.
USE OF DIGITAL MEDIA
9] I can listen to a conversation, presentation or dramatic performance and summarise the overt messageas well as the sub-text of motivation and bias.
SOCIAL CHANGE
10] I can engage in a debate and identify where there is common ground, as well as the main issues of any disagreement.
COMMUNICATING FOR DIVERSITY
11] I can respond to and speak about hypothetical situtations.
12] I can follow descriptions which are complex in terms of linguistic, thematic and lexical content.
13] I can discuss values, attitudes and assumptions conveyed through language use and choice in spoken texts dealing with challenging themes and issues.
14] I can, with ease of speech, produce patterns of English with minimal interference from L1.
15] I can research information through a variety of media e.g. telephone, and use this to produce a concise summary for formal presentation to an informed audience.
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
16] I can describe complex personal experiences, reactions, dreams, hopes and ambitions.
17] I can explain and give reasons for actions, plans or intentions fluently and accurately.
18] I can provide quite complex directions e.g. how to get from A to D.
19] I can relay information that I have obtained and add brief related comments e.g. from an announcement or that other speakers have given me.
20] I can make suggestions in a discussion by being fluent and accurate.
21] I can follow a debate which is complex in terms of linguistic, thematic and lexical content.
LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER2] I can conduct conversations which have complex implications to observe the need to be polite, sensitive and tactful.
COMMUNICATION FOR DIVERSITY3] I can communicate my thoughts and emotions through a wide variety of media e.g the telephone, and web interaction, using an appropriate tone and style.
COMMUNICATION4] I can use language in a way that is highly persuasive with the intention of influencing emotions or actions.
INTERPERSONAL5] I can ask others about themselves and their views, and evaluate their responses according to how they relate to my own views.
COMMUNICATING FOR DIVERSITY6] I can defend my point of view against reasonable questioning.
LEARNING TO KNOW7] I can communicate effectively in unfamiliar situations using a variety of media.
8] I can adapt my use of language to various media, observing the emerging etiquette and grammar of new media.
USE OF DIGITAL MEDIA9] I can listen to a conversation, presentation or dramatic performance and summarise the overt messageas well as the sub-text of motivation and bias.
SOCIAL CHANGE10] I can engage in a debate and identify where there is common ground, as well as the main issues of any disagreement.
COMMUNICATING FOR DIVERSITY11] I can respond to and speak about hypothetical situtations.
12] I can follow descriptions which are complex in terms of linguistic, thematic and lexical content.
13] I can discuss values, attitudes and assumptions conveyed through language use and choice in spoken texts dealing with challenging themes and issues.
14] I can, with ease of speech, produce patterns of English with minimal interference from L1.
15] I can research information through a variety of media e.g. telephone, and use this to produce a concise summary for formal presentation to an informed audience.
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT16] I can describe complex personal experiences, reactions, dreams, hopes and ambitions.
17] I can explain and give reasons for actions, plans or intentions fluently and accurately.
18] I can provide quite complex directions e.g. how to get from A to D.
19] I can relay information that I have obtained and add brief related comments e.g. from an announcement or that other speakers have given me.
20] I can make suggestions in a discussion by being fluent and accurate.
21] I can follow a debate which is complex in terms of linguistic, thematic and lexical content.
Subject Focus: Language awareness and production
1] I can construct more complex sentences.
PLANNING AND REFLECTION
2] I can understand the need for consistency in tense, voice, mood, person, and number e.g. the shift from past to present, active to passive, indicative to imperative.
3] I understand the need for the accurate use of tense and number.
COGNITIVE LEARNING
4] I can understand and use language which expresses hypothetical situations and possibilities e.g. modals and conditionals.
5] I can report, in speech or writing, what others have said or written .
6] I can understand how words behave together e.g. collocations, false friends and use these patterns in context of specific situations.
7] I can make use of affixes e.g. -ful, -ness to change grammatical class e.g. help- helpful; kind-kindness.
8] I can correctly make use of the past and present tenses as well as refer to the future when speaking and writing.
9] I can make use of the gerund e.g. smoking as a verb, noun and adjective.
10] I can identify the difference between tense and aspect.
11] I can accurately narrate events/stories, describe persons/objects/scenes, express arguments for and against, and formulate opinions at a level of complexity which is age-appropriate.
12] I can produce various forms of discourse e.g. creative , technical and scientific.
PLANNING AND REFLECTION2] I can understand the need for consistency in tense, voice, mood, person, and number e.g. the shift from past to present, active to passive, indicative to imperative.
3] I understand the need for the accurate use of tense and number.
COGNITIVE LEARNING4] I can understand and use language which expresses hypothetical situations and possibilities e.g. modals and conditionals.
5] I can report, in speech or writing, what others have said or written .
6] I can understand how words behave together e.g. collocations, false friends and use these patterns in context of specific situations.
7] I can make use of affixes e.g. -ful, -ness to change grammatical class e.g. help- helpful; kind-kindness.
8] I can correctly make use of the past and present tenses as well as refer to the future when speaking and writing.
9] I can make use of the gerund e.g. smoking as a verb, noun and adjective.
10] I can identify the difference between tense and aspect.
11] I can accurately narrate events/stories, describe persons/objects/scenes, express arguments for and against, and formulate opinions at a level of complexity which is age-appropriate.
12] I can produce various forms of discourse e.g. creative , technical and scientific.
Subject Focus: Reading
1] I can understand how language is used persuasively.
EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE
2] I can read for different purposes across a very wide range of genres e.g. to find out new information, for enjoyment, to learn new things.
3] I can identify and comment upon the cultural content of a text.
4] I can evaluate the ability of writers to achieve their effects through the use of linguistic, structural, stylistic, and presentation devices.
5] I can detect bias in a piece of writing.
6] I can distinguish between complex scientific and technical writing.
7] I can read complex texts across a wider range of genres for different purposes e.g to find out new information, for enjoyment, to learn new things.
EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE2] I can read for different purposes across a very wide range of genres e.g. to find out new information, for enjoyment, to learn new things.
3] I can identify and comment upon the cultural content of a text.
4] I can evaluate the ability of writers to achieve their effects through the use of linguistic, structural, stylistic, and presentation devices.
5] I can detect bias in a piece of writing.
6] I can distinguish between complex scientific and technical writing.
7] I can read complex texts across a wider range of genres for different purposes e.g to find out new information, for enjoyment, to learn new things.
Subject Focus: Writing
1] I can use a very wide range of complex sentence structures correctly with appropriate punctuation.
ACCURACY2] I can write for a particular purpose.
3] I can convey complex ideas in writing.
EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE4] I can convey information using diagrams within my writing.
5] I can produce texts in different genres e.g. narrative, descriptive, discursive.
6] I can write different types of sentences accurately, arranging these to make meaning clear as well as showing the relationship between paragraphs.
7] I can produce complex scientific and technical pieces of writing.
