English Lower Secondary Syllabus - Department of Education

Lower Secondary Syllabus• use voice intonation, body movement and facial expressions to enhancemeaning• adjust tone of voice and pronunciation to a particular purpose, situationor listener’s reaction.WritingWrite workplace texts for different audiences and purposes, includingappropriate ideas and information and using the structure and languagefeatures for that text.Texts and contexts• adjust writing style to suit the context, audience and purpose• create workplace texts using written or visual and audio resources• use local situational workplace experiences to draw ideas andinformation for composing texts• use the appropriate structure for composing the workplace text.Language• use adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs and simple comparisons toenhance texts where appropriate• recognise and use tense and grammar correctly, e.g. subject/ verbagreement, prepositions and prepositional phrases• select vocabulary appropriate to the topic and the context.Skills and strategies• use paragraphs, headings and graphics where appropriate tomeaningfully compose texts• use a range of ways to plan writing, e.g. discussion, notes, lists,diagrams• research and record information from a variety of sources for specificpurposes• review, proofread and edit when drafting all written work.23