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English Language for Interacting With Others

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This worksheet contains sentences and phrases where students are required to identify whether formal or informal language has been used. Once decided, students need to justify the answer they have chosen by explaining the features they can identify. This worksheet could be used as an explicit teaching activity, independent activity, during literacy rotations or a guided language group. This resource is part of the Formal and Informal Language Unit Plan.

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Curriculum Codes

AC9E6LA01 9

Understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase

ACELA1516 8.4

Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase

Communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features

EN3-OLC-01 new

Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding

Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase

Differentiation

Modifications

Students who find this challenging can simply identify the style of language that has been used.

EXTENSIONS

Students can rewrite phrases and sentences in the opposite style of writing.

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