AC9E9LY07 • Year 9 English

Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for...: Year 9 English topic guide

plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for purpose and audience, using language features, literary devices and features of voice such as volume, tone, pitch and pace, and organising, expanding and developing ideas in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical

What students learn in AC9E9LY07

This unit helps students build a clear, usable understanding of Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for.... 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: plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for purpose and audience, using language features, literary devices and features of voice such as volume, tone, pitch and pace, and organising, expanding and developing ideas in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical.
  • Use concrete examples, pictures, oral explanation and short written responses before moving to independent practice.
  • using graphics and text animations to accompany spoken text; for example, presenting a news item suitable for a current affairs program that uses images with spoken text to influence a viewer’s response selecting features of voice such as tone, volume, pitch and pace for their specific effects to create tone or to persuade an audience
  • 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: plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for purpose and audience, using language features, literary devices and features of voice such as volume, tone, pitch and pace, and organising, expanding and developing ideas in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical
  • E1: using graphics and text animations to accompany spoken text; for example, presenting a news item suitable for a current affairs program that uses images with spoken text to influence a viewer’s response
  • E2: selecting features of voice such as tone, volume, pitch and pace for their specific effects to create tone or to persuade an audience
  • E3: choosing text structures and adapting literary devices such as similes, metaphors and personification to meet the perceived needs of an audience when debating a topic, creating a voiceover for a media presentation or presenting a seminar
  • E4: collaborating with peers to develop imaginative recreations of part of a text or to represent a key idea in a text

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

AC9E9LY07 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.

RegionCurriculumClosest mapping
AustraliaAustralian Curriculum v9.0AC9E9LY07 — plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for purpose and audience, using language features, literary devices and features of voice such as volume, tone, pitch and pace, and organising, expanding and developing ideas in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical
VictoriaVictorian Curriculum F-10Year 9 English: closest match in Creating texts. Use this page as a VIC-aligned practice and worksheet reference.
NSWNSW CurriculumStage 5 English: closest content focus for Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for... and related outcomes.
United StatesCommon Core / NGSSGrade 9 Common Core Mathematics/ELA closest topic match for Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for....
England / UKNational CurriculumKey Stage 3 / Year 9: closest programme-of-study match for Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for....
CanadaProvincial and territory curriculaGrade 9 closest topic match. Canada varies by province, so use this as a broad Ontario/BC-style learning outcome reference.
New ZealandNew Zealand CurriculumLevel 5 English: closest achievement-objective topic for Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for....
IndiaNCERT / CBSEClass 9 closest NCERT/CBSE topic match for Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for....

Related Year 9 English topics

Official curriculum references