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Oxford VCE English includes all examinable texts for 2011

Ask your Oxford Representative how to tailor a VCE English solution to your school’s needs

The 2011 edition of Oxford VCE English 3&4 features updated coverage of Areas of Study 1, 2 and 3 for VCE Units 3 & 4. Providing flexibility and comprehensive coverage for students, this premium resource is tailored completely and accurately to the 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:

re-imagining  vce english for 2011 

Contents PARt 1: ReADInG AnD ResPonDInG

1. Overview of AOS 12. Understanding structure, features and

conventions3. Understanding characters 4. Understanding ideas, themes and values5. Interpreting texts6. Assessment resources

PARt 2: CReAtInG AnD PResentInG1. Overview of AOS 22. The Imaginative Landscape3. Whose Reality?4. Encountering Conflict5. Exploring Issues of Identity and Belonging6. Assessment resources

PARt 3: UsInG LAnGUAGe to PeRsUADe1. Overview of AOS 3 2. Persuasive language, persuasive texts3. Analysing persuasive texts4. Presenting a point of view5. Assessment resources

AOS1: reading and responding

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AOS2: creating and presenting

• 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)

ISBN 9780195574043 • $49.95Year 12 (Units 3&4)

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AOS3 fully updated

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ISBN 9780195574067 • $29.95Year 12 (Units 3&4)

ISBN 9780195574050 • $29.95Year 12 (Units 3&4)

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encountering Conflict 2011

• The Crucible

• The Secret River

• The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif

• Paradise Road

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• Sometimes Gladness

• Witness

• Growing Up Asian in Australia

• The Member of the Wedding

Contents

PARt 1: ReADInG AnD ResPonDInG1. AOS 1 overview2. The novel3. The short story4. Autobiography and biography5. Drama6. Poetry7. Narrative film8. Documentary film9. Points of view, values and interpretation

10. Assessment resources

PARt 2: CReAtInG AnD PResentInG11. AOS 2 overview 12. Exploring and presenting themes or ideas:

‘the migrant experience’13. Exploring technology and communication14. Exploring workplace communication

PARt 3: UsInG LAnGUAGe to PeRsUADe 15. AOS 3 overview16. Persuasive language17. Persuasive texts18. Analysing persuasive texts19. Creating your own point of view20. Assessment resources

In Area of Study 2, Creating and Presenting, students are invited to explore, within a chosen Context, the interconnection between reading and writing. The Oxford VCE English Context Guides offer in-depth coverage of all four Contexts, and will support students as they study this component of the course.

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AOS3: using language to persuade

context guides

the Imaginative Landscape 2011

• The Poetry of Robert Frost

• Island

• Tirra Lirra By the River

• One Night the Moon

ISBN 9780195574081 • $29.95Year 12 (Units 3&4)

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Whose Reality? 2011

• The Shark Net

• A Streetcar Named Desire

• The Player

• Spies

ISBN 9780195574074 • $29.95Year 12 (Units 3&4)

oxford vce english 1&2Oxford VCE English 1&2 features detailed coverage of all Areas of Study for Units 1 & 2.

ISBN 9780195564570 • $49.95Year 11 (Units 1&2)

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The second edition of Senior English Skills Builder is designed to help prepare students for the rigours of VCE English. A full-colour, write-in workbook, the material covers the five main aspects of English that students will cover in VCE English.

Contents Part A: Reading and Responding

Glossary of metalanguage and literary termsForm and genreThe language of filmCharacterisationImagery and metaphorical languageHumour and toneIdentifying a writer’s views and valuesWriting a response

Part B: Creating and PresentingWriting better sentencesLinking sentences and paragraphsWriting topic sentencesParagraphsImproving vocabulary and spelling 1Improving vocabulary and spelling 2Glossary of common errorsPunctuation and capital lettersActive and passive voiceUsing a dictionary and a thesaurusAcknowledging your sources Writing a statement of explanationExpository, persuasive and imaginative writingWriting about a contextGenerating ideas and planning for writingNarrative point of viewToneIdeas and techniques to start writingOpening linesEditing and proofreading 1Editing and proofreading 2Summarising: Messages, emails and newspaper articles

Summarising: Books, websites and lecturesBusiness letters and reportsPutting your CV together

Part C: Using Language to PersuadeIdentifying different types of articlesIdentifying point of viewAnalysing language: Layout, headlines and toneAnalysing language: Persuasive strategiesAnalysing language: Visual textsAnalysing language: Putting it all togetherPlanning for persuasive writingWriting a persuasive responseGlossary for analysing persuasive language

Part D: oral CommunicationPlanning and delivering an oral presentation

Part e: exam Preparation

Text responses in an examWriting about a context in an examAnalysing persuasive language in an exam

Unit 1Unit 2Unit 3Unit 4Unit 5Unit 6Unit 7Unit 8

Unit 9Unit 10Unit 11Unit 12Unit 13Unit 14Unit 15Unit 16Unit 17Unit 18Unit 19Unit 20Unit 21Unit 22Unit 23Unit 24Unit 25Unit 26Unit 27Unit 28Unit 29Unit 30

Unit 31Unit 32Unit 33

Unit 34Unit 35Unit 36Unit 37Unit 38Unit 39Unit 40Unit 41Unit 42

Unit 43

Unit 44Unit 45Unit 46

ISBN 9780195567205 • $26.95Years 10–12

Using  Language to Persuade 2e

Using Language to Persuade 2e is a fully revised edition of Oxford’s best-selling VCE English title. Major changes for the second edition include more visual texts for analysis, updated stimulus material so students have current media texts and issues to work with, and a new full-colour design.

ContentsPart 1: Introduction• What is this book about?• Information for

VCE students• Being ‘positioned’—

considering context, purpose, audience, language, form

• Helpful habits to form

Part 2: Issues and events, points of view and contentions• Issues and events• Points of view• Contentions

Part 3: Persuasive language• Metalanguage and

persuasive strategies• Verbal language• Non-verbal language• Visual language• Putting it all together

Part 4: Persuasive texts• Media text types• Print media sources• Media texts online• Finding reliable

evidence online• Newspapers• Print texts in newspapers• Other print texts• Non-print texts• Visual and multimodal

texts• Analysing visual and

multimodal texts—note taking

Part 5: Language analysis• What is language

analysis?• Critical questions

of language analysis• Useful language• Style• Tone• How to construct

an analysis• Writing your analysis:

language focus• Language focus: avoid

says that

Part 6: expressing your own point of view• Overview• Tips• Planning a point-of-view

response• Oral presentation

of a point of view

Part 7: toolkit• Warm-ups• Practice SAC and

examination tasks• Templates• Referencing

Glossary of key terms/metalanguage

ISBN 9780195568653 • $29.95Years 10–12

Senior English  Skills Builder 2e

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