Essential English Skills for the Australian Curriculum has been revised to cover the language and literacy strands of the Australian Curriculum: English with a focus on introducing key language and literacy skills in Years 7&8 and consolidating and developing those skills in Years 9&10.

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Please note that responses to many questions in these workbooks ask students to write their own sentences using the vocabulary they have encountered. On these occasions the authors have provided one example of a sentence as a model with the understanding that your students will write their own original sentences.

p.57 Unit 10, Level 3, Q1 - the second part of the instruction is to be deleted: 'Then state where you would find the others, such as near or in a particular ocean or sea.'

p.64 Unit 11, Level 1, Q3 - the instructions are to be changed to the following: Underline the word from the four columns on the right that does not match the word from the thesaurus list in bold type. (You may need to use a dictionary to check definitions.)
- The first column of words also needs to be bold and the fifth column of words needs to be unbolded.

p. 92 Unit 15, Level 1, Q2a - the instruction needs to be changed to: What facts in the material enable you to deduce that Aboriginal people first arrived in Australia about 40 000 years ago? (changed from 'Aborigines')

p.135 Unit 20, Level 3, Q1a - the instructions need to be changed to: In the Medecins Sans Frontieres advertisement, what ideas are suggested by the list of six nationalities followed by question marks and the word 'human' in a different colour?

p. 135 Unit 20, Level 3, Q1c - change the instructions to read: How does the final appeal, 'Donate without prejudice', reinforce the earlier message about helping people 'regardless of race, religion or political conviction'?