Hydro Tasmania - Working With Us - NAPLAN-style language practice

Australian curriculum content descriptions:

Year 9 English:

• Interpret, analyse and evaluate how different perspectives of issue, event, situation, individuals or groups are constructed to serve specific purposes in texts (ACELY1742).
• Analyse how the construction and interpretation of texts, including media texts, can be influenced by cultural perspectives and other texts (ACELY1739).
• Listen to spoken texts constructed for different purposes, for example to entertain and to persuade, and analyse how language features of these texts position listeners to respond in particular ways (ACELY1740).
• Understand that authors innovate with text structures and language for specific purposes and effects (ACELA1553).

Syllabus Outcomes: EN5-1A, EN5-2A, EN5-8D. 

Time required: 60 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – oversee activity.

• Access to a device on which to screen a short video
• Student Worksheet (one copy per student OR computers/tablets to access the online worksheet)
• Device capable of presenting a website to the class

This lesson has been developed in partnership with  
Hydro Tasmania.

Hydro Tasmania has been at the forefront of clean energy innovation for one hundred years. It is Australia’s largest producer of clean energy – generating hydro and wind power – and the largest water manager. Hydro Tasmania has 55 major dams, operates 30 hydropower stations and has built some of Australia’s largest wind farms.

Hydro Tasmania also sells energy in the National Electricity Market through its retail business Momentum Energy, and sells its expertise internationally through its consulting business Entura.

Visit the Hydro Tasmania website to learn how the business is working towards Australia’s clean energy future.