Essential English

Learning Concepts

Essential 1

• Develop writing skills in highly structured tasks 
• Engage and create everyday texts 
• Recognise and analyse film techniques 
• Recognise and analyse language and narrative techniques 
• Reflect on learning through a writer's statement 

Essential 2

• Recognise novel techniques 
• Engage with and create everyday texts 
• Develop writing skills in highly structured tasks 
• Develop presentation skills 
• Express ideas logically and in an appropriate order  

If you are considering university study, especially interstate or at ADFA, you are strongly encouraged to choose
SACE English General English or English Literary Studies. 
Some universities do not accept Essential English as meeting English entry requirements. 

Essential 1

Assessment Type 1: Responding to Texts (25%)

• Film Trailer Analysis  

Assessment Type 2: Creating Texts (25%)  

• Formal Letter  
• Newsletter Article  

Assessment Type 3: Interaction (25%) 

• Collage & Writer’s Statement  

Essential 2

Assessment Type 1: Responding to Texts (50%) 

• Picture Book Analysis 
• Short Answer Novel Response 

Assessment Type 2: Creating Texts (50%) 

• Letter of Complaint 
• Oral Report on Incursion