Level 3 Sample 3 Speaking and listening

Task Summary

The students worked in pairs to develop an interview of a book character. They chose to interview Elsie from The Ice Monster by David Walliams. The students were expected to place themselves as their subject, develop questions and then research their responses. They then each took a role as either the interviewer or the interviewee.

Duration: 1 minute 14 seconds

Level 3 Sample 3 transcript

Level 3 English, Speaking and Listening achievement standard (extract only)

This speaking sample provides evidence of student achievement for:

… listen and respond appropriately using interaction skills … understand how language features are used to link and sequence ideas … create a range of texts for familiar and unfamiliar audiences … contribute actively to class and group discussions … make presentations.

For more information, please see: Victorian Curriculum F–10: English – Level 3 – Speaking and Listening

Video with annotations against achievement standard extracts for Speaking and Listening

Duration: 1 minute 14 seconds

Students:
Plan and deliver a spoken presentation using appropriate structure and language.
Use open questions to prompt a speaker to provide more information (‘What’s the cheekiest thing you’ve done?’)
Include details and elaborations to expand ideas (‘Dotty, because when I was in the janitor closet she didn’t get me in trouble.’)
Identify main ideas of a spoken text using supporting details.
Incorporate learnt content into spoken text.

Planning the next stage of student learning

When planning the next stage of the teaching and learning program to progress these students’ learning, focus on the following skills and knowledge:
Level 3

Understand that successful cooperation with others depends on shared use of social conventions, including turn-taking patterns, and forms of address that vary according to the degree of formality in social situations (VCELA271)
Learn extended and technical vocabulary and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs (VCELA273)

Level 4

Understand differences between the language of opinion and feeling and the language of factual reporting or recording (VCELA305)
Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view (VCELT306)
Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations incorporating learned content and taking into account the particular audiences and purposes such as informative, persuasive and imaginative, including multimodal elements (VCELY308)

Remember to attend to the Reading and Viewing learning needs of the students. For example, focus on the following skills and knowledge:
Level 3

Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others (VCELT251)