The 2011 edition of Oxford VCE English 3 & 4 features updated coverage of all Areas of Study for VCE Units 3 & 4. Providing flexibility and comprehensive coverage for students, this premium resource is tailored completely and accurately to the new course. It is beautifully designed in full colour and will engage students while helping them to achieve success in all outcomes and the end-of-year examination.

Area of Study 2 Contexts have been updated to include all examinable texts for 2011:

• The Imaginative Landscape now includes One Night the Moon (film)
• Whose Reality? now includes Spies (novel)
• Encountering Conflict now includes Paradise Road (film)
• Exploring Issues of Identity and Belonging now includes The Member of the Wedding (novel)

Title overview (PDF)

• Strong reference section to familiarise students with metalanguage
• Your Turn tasks give students the opportunity to put into practice what they have learnt
• Comprehensive Assessment Resources section – including practice assessment tasks and sample responses with written explanations

PART 1: READING AND RESPONDING

1. Overview of AOS 1
2. Understanding structure, features and conventions
3. Understanding characters
4. Understanding ideas, themes and values
5. Interpreting texts
6. Assessment resources


PART 2: CREATING AND PRESENTING

7. Overview of AOS 2
8. The Imaginative Landscape
9. Whose Reality?
10. Encountering Conflict
11. Exploring Issues of Identity and Belonging
12. Assessment resources


PART 3: USING LANGUAGE TO PERSUADE

13. Overview of AOS 3
14. Persuasive language, persuasive texts
15. Analysing persuasive texts
16. Presenting a point of view
17. Assessment resources