AC9E3LA10

Language for expressing and developing ideas

extend topic-specific and technical vocabulary and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts

Elaborations

AC9E3LA10_E1identifying and using technical words to describe length; for example, metric units of length – “millimetre” and “centimetre”
AC9E3LA10_E2identifying and using words to describe features of narratives; for example, “character”, “plot” and “setting”
AC9E3LA10_E3identifying words that have different meanings in different contexts; for example, “warm temperature” and “warm character”
AC9E3LA10_E4extending vocabulary by adding prefixes and suffixes to base words; for example, “different”, “differently” and “difference”