Cambridge Essential English for Queensland Units 1&2
Overview
Cambridge Essential English for Queensland Second Edition comprehensively covers the revised Essential English syllabus to be implemented for Year 11 in 2025 and includes new high-interest content. Reflecting the interests of today’s students, the book includes chapters on the live entertainment industry, workplace culture and communication, film and autobiographical writing. New texts and extracts allow students to engage with current examples. Teachers benefit from new teacher explanation notes, scaffolded teaching with activities and extension tasks and an introductory chapter, with explanations and key literacy routines and strategy examples and downloadable, editable worksheets.
Features
- New content includes: a new chapter in Unit 1 focusing on working in the live entertainment industry to immediately engage students in the subject as they explore aspects of workplace communication, new film studies explore a range of inspiring feature-length films, reflective texts and television shows and their relationship with real life and the diverse human experience, new texts and extracts throughout, including Free Willy and the experience of Keiko the Whale and the design of $50 notes and new extended material to give students more context for exploring the experiences of members of the Stolen Generations.
- New embedded teacher explanation notes offer alternative ideas for tasks, approaches, and assessment ideas.
- Scaffolded teaching with routines, activities and extension tasks to suit a range of student needs.
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