The second edition of Senior English Skills Builder is designed to help prepare students for the rigours of VCE English. A full colour, write-in workbook, the material covers the five main aspects of English that students will cover in VCE:

1. Reading and Responding
2. Creating and Presenting
3. Using Language to Persuade
4. Oral Presentations
5. Exam Preparation

Title overview - Victoria (PDF)
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Part A: Reading and Responding

Unit 1. Glossary of metalanguage
Unit 2. Introduction to form and genre
Unit 3. The language of film
Unit 4. Characterisation
Unit 5. Imagery and metaphorical language
Unit 6. Using humour and tone
Unit 7. Identifying a writer's views and values
Unit 8. Writing an expository text response


Part B: Creating and Presenting The building blocks of writing

Unit 9. Writing better sentences
Unit 10. Linking sentences and paragraphs
Unit 11. Writing skills
Unit 12. Improving vocabulary and spelling 1
Unit 13. Improving vocabulary and spelling 2
Unit 14. Glossary of common errors
Unit 15. Punctuation
Unit 16. Active and passive voice
Unit 17. Using the dictionary and the thesaurus
Unit 18. Acknowledging your references Writing in senior school
Unit 19. Identifying your purpose and audience
Unit 20. Imaginative, expository and persuasive writing
Unit 21. Writing on a Context
Unit 22. Generating ideas and planning
Unit 23. Point of view
Unit 24. Tone
Unit 25. Ideas and techniques to start you writing
Unit 26. Acknowledging your references
Unit 27. Editing and proofreading 1
Unit 28. Editing and proofreading 2
Unit 29. Summarising 1: text messages, emails and newspaper articles
Unit 30. Summarising 2: books, websites and lectures
Unit 31. Business letters and reports
Unit 32. Putting your CV together


Part C: Using Language to Persuade

Unit 33. Identifying different types of articles
Unit 34. Identifying point of view
Unit 35. Analysing language: tone
Unit 36. Analysing language: persuasive strategies
Unit 37. Analysing language: visual texts
Unit 38. Analysing language: putting it all together
Unit 39. Persuasive writing 1
Unit 40. Persuasive writing 2
Unit 41. Glossary of terms for analysing persuasive language


Part D: Oral Communication

Unit 42. Planning and delivering an oral presentation
Part E: Exam Preparation
Unit 43. Text responses in an exam
Unit 44. Writing on a Context in an exam
Unit 45. Analysing persuasive language in an exam


Student Checklist BLMs
Teacher Assessment Checklist BLMs

Senior English Skills Builder - sample pages