What students learn in AC9E1LY02
This unit helps students build a clear, usable understanding of Interaction skills including turn-taking, speaking clearly, using active listening behaviours.... The goal is not to memorise one answer pattern. Students should be able to explain the idea, recognise it in a new example and apply it in a short practice or worksheet task.
- Start with the main idea: use interaction skills including turn-taking, speaking clearly, using active listening behaviours and responding to the contributions of others, and contributing ideas and questions.
- Use concrete examples, pictures, oral explanation and short written responses before moving to independent practice.
- using turn-taking in group and pair work building a conversation by staying on topic, supporting other speakers, eliciting responses, listening supportively and attentively, asking relevant questions, providing useful feedback and prompting
- Finish with mixed questions so students must choose the correct strategy rather than copy the last example.
Curriculum coverage and elaborations
The content description and elaborations below show the curriculum ideas taught in this unit. Items marked as teaching context support lesson planning but may not appear in the initial eight-question activity.
- Content description: use interaction skills including turn-taking, speaking clearly, using active listening behaviours and responding to the contributions of others, and contributing ideas and questions
- E1: using turn-taking in group and pair work
- E2: building a conversation by staying on topic, supporting other speakers, eliciting responses, listening supportively and attentively, asking relevant questions, providing useful feedback and prompting
- E3: participating in informal and structured class, group and pair discussions about content area topics, ideas and information
- E4: interacting appropriately with peers, teachers and visitors
- E5: formulating different types of questions to ask a speaker, such as open and closed questions and “when”, “why” and “how” questions
How to use this unit
Read the topic guide, use the teacher slide for instruction, then complete the Worksheet, Practice and Test. These three activities use the same eight-question unit bank.
Teacher resource
AC9E1LY02 teacher slide
Use this one-page PDF to introduce the key idea, vocabulary and teaching sequence before students begin the activities.
Open teacher slide (PDF)Common mistakes to watch for
- Answering from memory without using clues from the text, sentence or image.
- Knowing the idea orally but not transferring it into reading, writing or speaking.
- Missing punctuation, word order or vocabulary clues that change meaning.
International curriculum mapping
This table gives closest-topic mapping for search and planning. The Australian Curriculum code is exact; overseas entries are broad equivalents because each jurisdiction structures outcomes differently.
| Region | Curriculum | Closest mapping |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | Australian Curriculum v9.0 | AC9E1LY02 — use interaction skills including turn-taking, speaking clearly, using active listening behaviours and responding to the contributions of others, and contributing ideas and questions |
| Victoria | Victorian Curriculum F-10 | Year 1 English: closest match in Interacting with others. Use this page as a VIC-aligned practice and worksheet reference. |
| NSW | NSW Curriculum | Stage 1 English: closest content focus for Interaction skills including turn-taking, speaking clearly, using active listening behaviours... and related outcomes. |
| United States | Common Core / NGSS | Grade 1 Common Core Mathematics/ELA closest topic match for Interaction skills including turn-taking, speaking clearly, using active listening behaviours.... |
| England / UK | National Curriculum | Key Stage 1 / Year 1: closest programme-of-study match for Interaction skills including turn-taking, speaking clearly, using active listening behaviours.... |
| Canada | Provincial and territory curricula | Grade 1 closest topic match. Canada varies by province, so use this as a broad Ontario/BC-style learning outcome reference. |
| New Zealand | New Zealand Curriculum | Level 1 English: closest achievement-objective topic for Interaction skills including turn-taking, speaking clearly, using active listening behaviours.... |
| India | NCERT / CBSE | Class 1 closest NCERT/CBSE topic match for Interaction skills including turn-taking, speaking clearly, using active listening behaviours.... |