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EnglishSpeaking & Listeningusually ages 10–11

Adapting Speech to Context

Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, using formal English when appropriate to task and situation while adjusting tone, vocabulary, and style for different audiences

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Does your child naturally speak differently depending on who they're talking to — for example, more formally with a teacher than with a friend at the playground?

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Formal and Informal Englishages 7–10Adapting speech builds on formal/informal register
Choosing Formal Vocabularyages 10–11Adapting speech builds on formal vocabulary
Adapting Speech to Contextthis skill · ages 10–11
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Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9E6LA03low confidenceYear 6 · Language

explain how texts across the curriculum are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases depending on purposes, recognising how authors often adapt text structures and language features

AC9E4LA07low confidenceYear 4 · Language

investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech are used

AC9E5LA03low confidenceYear 5 · Language

describe how spoken, written and multimodal texts use language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases, depending on purposes in texts

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

EN2-OLC-01medium confidenceEnglish K-10 · Stage 2
EN2-REFLU-01medium confidenceEnglish K-10 · Stage 2

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2E5LY10low confidenceEnglish · Level 5 · Literacy strand
VC2E6LY02low confidenceEnglish · Level 6 · Literacy strand
VC2E5LY06low confidenceEnglish · Level 5 · Literacy strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

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