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- Subject: English
- AS: 91102
- Level: 2
- Credits: 3
- Internal
English 2.5 Construct and deliver a crafted and controlled oral text
Terminology
Here are explanations for terminology used in the achievement criteria for this achievement standard. They are grouped by level of achievement.
On this page: Achievement | Achievement with Merit | Achievement with Excellence
Achievement
Construct and deliver means that you will plan, write and develop a presentation that might explore a variety of ideas, points of view, findings, or dramatic aspects. Your presentation will have a clear introduction, middle, and conclusion and use appropriate oral language features.
Crafted oral text means to systematically revise, rework, and reshape your work by carefully selecting oral language features that support your ideas and structure to achieve a planned whole.
Controlled oral text means to carefully select words and oral language features for a specific reason. Every aspect of your work should contribute something worthwhile to the text.
Oral text includes – speeches, seminars, oral histories, debates, live/recorded presentations, and other appropriate oral text types. The text is primarily spoken in English and may include other appropriate presentation techniques.
Develops, sustains, and structures ideas involves building on ideas by adding comments, explanations, details or examples and making connections between ideas, throughout an oral text.
Ideas may be your opinion on a topic, facts, information, feelings, thoughts, interpretation, narrative, arguments, observations, opinions or themes. Ideas support the main reason for your presentation.
Appropriate means that the techniques chosen suit the purpose, type of presentation and the people listening and watching.
Oral language means the words used in the content of the presentation and how they are delivered by using the voice such as tone, volume, pace. Oral language features may include:
- verbal language techniques (eg rhetorical questions, alliteration)
- body language (eg eye contact, stance, gesture, facial expression)
- voice (eg tone, volume, pace, stress).
Audience means the group you are aiming to get your message across to. Think about age, gender, etc and how your can communicate best with them. The audience could be stated as part of the task.
Purpose is the reason behind your presentation – do you want to entertain, inform, persuade, or express feelings to your audience? Use the purpose as the focus for the development of your ideas.
Effects means you know how to use appropriate oral language features to give a certain feeling, tone, or message in your work.
Achievement with merit
Convincingly means the way it is written makes the writing seem believable, real, impressive, or powerful in some way. It involves ideas and structure that are reasoned, clear, and relevant to the purpose of the text.
Convincingly means to be confident with the content, structure and style of writing you use. Your essay could develop a reasoned and convincing argument or interpretation by being accurate, very detailed, precise, or persuasive.
Convincing effects means you will be convincing in your delivery by engaging your audience with full eye contact and using a wide variety of language and delivery techniques without hesitation. Delivery will seem natural and not forced, the audience should be genuinely interested.
Achievement with Excellence
Effectively means clever, interesting, or offering a new way of looking at an idea and may challenge the audience in some way. The presentation will be memorable and have a certain wow factor that holds the audience’s attention and may challenge them in some way. It may involve ideas and structure that are compelling, persuasive, innovative, and/or striking.
Command attention means the audience finds it very memorable, interesting, or worthwhile. This may be done by having a unique presentation style, skilled use of language, using a wide range of oral language features.
