AC9E3LA02

Language for interacting with others

understand how the language of evaluation and emotion, such as modal verbs, can be varied to be more or less forceful

Elaborations

AC9E3LA02_E1exploring how modal verbs; for example, “must”, “might” and “could”, indicate degrees of probability or obligation
AC9E3LA02_E2recognising how choice of adverbs, nouns and verbs present different evaluations of characters in texts
AC9E3LA02_E3exploring examples of language that demonstrate a range of emotions and positions, and building a vocabulary to express judgements about characters or events; for example, “the wizard was cunning, expert, inventive”