English Lower Secondary Syllabus - Department of Education

Lower Secondary Syllabus• use appropriate language to participate in guided discussions on a rangeof social and cultural issues• listen to a range of spoken texts including oral histories.Skills and strategies• identify and use strategies to capture audience in an oral speech• use pace, volume, pronunciation, movement, gesture and facialexpression to convey meaning when telling a story.WritingWrite narratives based on local and personal experience of living in PapuaNew Guinea using appropriate content, language structures and strategies.Texts and contexts• produce a narrative text based on traditional Papua New Guinea storiesor local experiences• adopt organisational features of a narrative, e.g. orientation, complicationand resolution• address the elements of a narrative including setting, plot/events,character development• produce texts describing the different value systems and attitudes withintheir cultural settings.Language• use a variety of simple, compound and complex sentences when writinga narrative• use adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs to enhance the narrative• use paragraphs for separate sections of the narrative• use punctuation appropriately, e.g. commas, apostrophes• use appropriate grammar and language for a written narrative.Skills and strategies• research ideas and information to develop a topic or an idea in anarrative account• proofread drafts, using checklists for conventions, punctuation, grammarand spelling.27