Pearson English 9: Second Edition Activity Book (2e)

Part of the series Pearson English - Year 9.

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The Second Edition of the Pearson English 9 Activity Book offers updated texts, activities, design and coverage of the Australian Curriculum: English. It caters for students of all abilities, including students with English as an Additional Language. The Pearson English Activity Books are designed to develop and consolidate students’ knowledge and understanding of the English language and grammar. They integrate cumulative learning in the Language strand of the curriculum, as well as in the Literature and Literacy strands. Using the Activity Books, students develop higher order language and literacy skills. They are supported with a solid language foundation, clear explanations and scaffolded learning. Students are exposed to rich and varied literature sources and text types, including contemporary and classic texts, Australian Aboriginal storytelling and news articles. Each level of the Activity Books includes core units which offer clear Language explanations followed by scaffolded activities to use the language in context and build on grammar, vocabulary, spelling, reading and writing skills. At the back of the book, four revision units support students in preparing for summative assessment. Teachers will also find extension activities, tests, pedagogical support, Australian Curriculum correlation charts and more online for free.

Features and Benefits

• Student-friendly content and layout to engage students
• Content written by teachers for 'classroom ready' guarantee
• Bloom's Taxonomy incorporated to scaffold student learning
• Over 380 texts, including innovative new text types to aid visual learning
• Carefully aligned to meet all demands from the Australian Curriculum for English

Contents

• Introduction
• Unit 1 Parts of speech 1 (Revision) - Visual, Novel extract
• Unit 2 Parts of speech 2 (Revision) - Visual, Novel extract
• Unit 3 Parts of speech 3 (Revision) - Autobiography extract
• Unit 4 Verbs and verb tenses - Novel extracts
• Unit 5 Writing sentences (Revision) - Novel extract
• Unit 6 Subject and predicate (Revision)
• Unit 7 Gerunds
• Unit 8 Word order - Novel extract
• Unit 9 Punctuation 1 (Revision) - Novel extract
• Unit 10 Punctuation 2 (Revision)
• Unit 11 Figures of speech 1 (Revision)
• Unit 12 Figures of speech 2 (Revision) - Novel extract
• Unit 13 Figures of speech 3 (Revision)
• Unit 14 Allusions
• Unit 15 Idioms - Novel extract, Short story
• Unit 16 Paradoxes and euphemisms - Visual
• Unit 17 Persuasive techniques - Letter, Visual
• Unit 18 Symbolism - Visual symbols
• Unit 19 Colloquialisms
• Unit 20 Synonyms and antonyms - Novel extract
• Unit 21 Homonyms - Visual
• Unit 22 Direct/indirect speech and active/passive voice - Novel extract
• Unit 23 Developing paragraphs 1 - Informative extract
• Unit 24 Developing paragraphs 2 - Informative extracts
• Unit 25 Developing paragraphs 3 - Biography
• Revision 1 Units 1–10
• Revision 2 Units 11–15
• Revision 3 Units 12–21 - Novel extract
• Revision 4 Units 22–25 - News article

Series Overview

It started with a question: what makes a good English lesson? Pearson English has been built from the ground up to answer that question, using the people who would know best. We sourced teachers as authors, ran focus groups with teachers from government, independent and Catholic schools and tested all material in Australian classrooms. The result is the most comprehensive English series, written, reviewed and tested by English teachers. All texts have been independently audited by practising teachers in over 90 hours of revisions and improvements, ensuring that the final content is uniformly excellent and matches the content and assessment requirements of the Australian Curriculum, and our thorough trials mean that you can be sure the texts, tasks and activities are classroom ready. There is an amazing range of texts (over 380 texts) covering traditional and non-traditional options, including fiction and non-fiction, newspapers, letters, graphic novels, animations, manga, poetry, short stories and plays which also include unique Indigenous and Asia-Pacific literature.