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Year 9 English
Language Techniques
Techniques for Analysing Visual Texts
English-Specific Examination Key Words
English: Essential Skills Video Collection
Video Links
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Analysing Texts
• How to Analyse Texts Critically - Critical Thinking
• Understanding Complex Texts: Research and Study
• Understanding Complex Texts: Interpretation Strategies
• Understanding Complex Texts: Interpretation in Action
• Interpreting and Questioning Everything
• Analysing Texts: Finding Context
• Argument Through Interpretation
• Understanding Stimulus Texts
• Comprehension and Inference for Short Answers
• Complex & Abstract Prose: Novels and Short Stories
• Techniques for Analysing Visual Texts
• Studying Film: Glossary of Camera Angles
• Studying Film: How to Discuss Camera Angles
• Structure of Films & Plot Devices: Construction of Meaning
• Making Arguments Out of Short Stories
• Style and Structure of Feature Articles
• Understanding Persuasive Language Techniques
• Glossary of language Techniques in Dialogue
• Understanding and Interpreting Techniques in Dialogue
• Writing about Techniques in Dialogue
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Text and Context
• Analysing Texts: Finding Context
• Understanding Aboriginal Culture: Text and Context
• Aboriginal Beliefs: Background to Rabbit Proof Fence
• Texts and Context: Australian and International Contexts
• Texts and Context: Australian Language and Texts
• Texts and Contexts: Understanding Cultural Perspectives
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Speeches
• Rhetorical Devices for Speeches (pdf)
• More Rhetorical Devices for Speeches (Video)
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Video Links
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Exam Preparation​
• How to Prepare for an English Exam
• Using Outcomes to your Advantage
• Understanding Complex Questions
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Essay Writing
• Essay Writing: Structure of Essays
• Essay Writing: Paragraph Structure
• Essay Writing: Constructing Sentences
• Essay Writing: The Planning Process
• Essay Writing: Key Words and Outcomes
• Essay Writing: Understanding Essay Questions
• Essay Writing: Answering the Question
• Essay Writing: Editing Your Essays
• Essay Writing: Editing Comparative Studies
• Essay Writing: Common Mistakes
• Essay Writing: Techniques for Success
• Essay Writing: Preparing Sophisticated Essays - (Not!)
• Essay Writing: Simplifying Text and Ideas
• Essay Writing: Simple Language Techniques
• Essay Writing: Writing About Language Techniques
• Essay Writing: Linking Words and Phrases
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Creative Writing
• Creative Writing: Finding Ideas for Stories
• Creative Writing: Write Better Stories
• Creative Writing: How to Construct a Story
• Creative Writing: Developing a Story
• Creative Writing: Using Description
• Creative Writing: Sensory and Emotional Language
• Creative Writing: Adding Perspectives
• Creative Writing: Common Mistakes
• Creative Writing: Metaphor and Analogy
• Creative Writing: Idea Bank, Character and Setting
• Creative Writing: Simple Tips for Better Stories
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• Creative Writing: Simple Tips for Better Stories
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English: Study Resources for Specific Texts - Created by Gabby!
• The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitgerald
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• The Curious Incident of the Dog
in the Moonlight by Mark Haddon
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• The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick
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• Artist of a Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
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• Animal Farm by George Orwell
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• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
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• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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• All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
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• Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
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• Young Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
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• Boy Overboard by Morris Gleitzman
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• Don't Call Me Ishmael by Michael Bauer
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