English Lower Secondary Syllabus - Department of Education

Lower Secondary Syllabus• analyse information for clarity, relevance and point of view• identify different cultural ways of persuading and informing within texts• identify how ideas and information have been selected to appeal todifferent groups• identify how certain textual resources have been used to representpeople, places, events and things in ways that appeal to different groups• analyse the structure of persuasive and information texts, e.g. aninformation report includes a general classification of what is being talkedabout, facts about various aspects of the subject including diagrams,photos, and illustrations.Language• identify and explain persuasive language techniques used in a range ofprint and visual texts, e.g. emotive words, use of slogans• identify and explain language used in information texts includingtechnical terms, present tense, linking and action verbs, nouns,comparative words• consider how languages change over time and investigate how visualand linguistic features are used to persuade and to deliver information toa wide range of audiences• identify how the use of written/visual imagery features help createmeanings.Skills and strategies• formulate questions about the persuasive and informative texts read• make notes about the ideas and information in persuasive andinformative texts• use bibliographies to select further texts.Speaking and listeningListen to, speak about and compose a range of oral persuasive andinformative texts based on Papua New Guinea and the wider world thatinclude appropriate content, language and strategies.Texts and contexts• adjust register of own spoken texts for different purposes, situations andaudiences• identify alternative viewpoints in spoken texts• analyse qualities of valid argument and challenge ideas in discussionand debate• develop a main idea or point of view providing some supporting detailsand evidence to explore ideas and issues• offer opinions and attempt to persuade others to a point of view• identify meanings not directly stated• develop a main idea or point of view providing some supporting detailsand evidence to explore ideas and issues to persuade• explore strategies used in different forms of oral persuasivepresentations, e.g. use of non-verbals in TV advertising, voice effects inoral debates.47