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A set of eight worksheets designed to help students develop skills in listening and speaking in English: listening for detail, listening for general meaning and listening for quotes to support interpretations. The resource includes a Teacher Guide with a complete set of answers and a Student Handbook. Download a free sample here.

The PDF document includes ten practice tasks for Framework 1: writing about Country

The sample tasks follow the pattern set by VCAA’s sample English and EAL exams, and include the rubric from the sample exam for each individual task and the assessment criteria. They are instantly downloadable if paying by credit card, or use a school order number to have them delivered by email within 24 hours.

The PDF document includes ten practice tasks for Framework 2: writing about Protest

The sample tasks follow the pattern set by VCAA’s sample English and EAL exams, and include the rubric from the sample exam for each individual task and the assessment criteria. They are instantly downloadable if paying by credit card, or use a school order number to have them delivered by email within 24 hours.

The PDF document includes ten practice tasks for Framework 3: writing about Personal Journeys

The sample tasks follow the pattern set by VCAA’s sample English and EAL exams, and include the rubric from the sample exam for each individual task and the assessment criteria. They are instantly downloadable if paying by credit card, or use a school order number to have them delivered by email within 24 hours.

The PDF document includes ten practice tasks for Framework 4: writing about Play

The sample tasks follow the pattern set by VCAA’s sample English and EAL exams, and include the rubric from the sample exam for each individual task and the assessment criteria. They are instantly downloadable if paying by credit card, or use a school order number to have them delivered by email within 24 hours.

The PDF document includes BBE’s New GAT MCQ Test Preparation Guide analyses the most recent GAT released so far by VCAA. The guide contains:

• detailed discussion of what is tested in the Numeracy, Reading, Humanities and Math/science components;
• an explanation of the answers to all items; and
• advice on how to best deal with MCQ tests.

There are links to online versions of the four tests and these can be done by students. The test will be automatically scored by our software, and a report produced that gives total scores and shows which items were scored right and wrong for each component.

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$38.50

The PDF document includes BBE‘s New GAT Writing Test Preparation Guide analyses the VCAA GAT writing tests released by so far by VCAA.

The guide contains detailed discussion of:

• what is tested in these writing tests;
• the criteria for assessment of writing tasks;
• the three different GAT tasks;
• advice on how to plan and write responses;
• 10 scored student responses to the writing tasks of 2022 as exemplars of levels of performance;
• 3 scripts for trial marking for students;
• advice on how to develop writing ability and how to best deal with the New GAT writing tests.

They are instantly downloadable if paying by credit card, or use a school order number to have them delivered by email within 24 hours.

$38.50

The BBE study guide on Writing for VCE English/EAL exam and the GAT

This study guide is about the tests of writing ability in the GAT and the VCE English exam, focusing on Section B, Writing about a framework. It includes information about

• samples of student writing
• planning writing in test and exam conditions
• criteria used in writing assessments
• disabling and enabling approaches to writing

They are instantly downloadable if paying by credit card, or use a school order number to have them delivered by email within 24 hours.

$38.50

The package includes

BBE’s New GAT MCQ Test Preparation Guide, BBE‘s New GAT Writing Test Preparation Guide and Writing for VCE English/EAL exam and the GAT.

They are instantly downloadable if paying by credit card, or use a school order number to have them delivered by email within 24 hours.

$93.50

This publication gives an introduction to Argument analysis - Section C on the VCE English exam and ten Section C tasks.

An analytical commentary is given for each task. The tasks are the following.

Shockvertising
The development of national parks
Youth wages
Ban on phones in school
Superheroes
Universal Basic Income
Alternative medicine
Wokeness
Dangerous dogs
The trad wife

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Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies. It is a story of mistaken identity and disguise that explores the complexities of love and desire, revealing its capacity to inspire joy, confusion, and even foolishness. Shakespeare examines traditional gender roles through Viola’s disguise, blurring the boundaries of identity and subverting societal expectations. 

The BooBook Education study guide for Twelfth Night gives a detailed reading and analysis of the text including a comprehensive point form synopsis, key quotes, a discussion of themes, and an explanation of vocabulary needed to describe characters, relationships and key ideas. 

A process for analysing and developing a response to an essay topic using a template of key incidents and quotes is outline and explained.

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Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 film noir directed by Billy Wilder that tells the story of a faded silent film star and her longing for and desperate attempt to return to the spotlight. It is a powerful exploration of the dark side of Hollywood, obsession, and the destructive effects of fame.

The BooBook Education study guide for Sunset Boulevard gives a detailed reading and analysis of the text including a comprehensive point form synopsis, key quotes, a discussion of themes, and an explanation of vocabulary needed to describe characters, relationships and key ideas. 

A process for analysing and developing a response to an essay topic using a template of key incidents and quotes is outline and explained.

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Argument analysis - VCE ENGLISH SECTION C PRACTICE TASKS – Series 2

$44.00 

This publication gives an introduction to Argument analysis - Section C on the VCE English exam and ten Section C tasks.

An analytical commentary is given for each task. The tasks are the following.

Controls on Access to Social Media
The Value of Electric Scooters
A Generational Smoking Ban
Funding for Recreation
Complaints of bias in the ABC
Opposition a Fast Food Restaurant
The impact of AI in Schooling
A Fat Tax

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In this novel Charlotte Bronte draws on her experiences of childhood hardship, education, teaching, and emotional isolation. It combines elements of realism, romance, and Gothic style stories to tell of a young woman’s moral and emotional development. Through its focus on conscience, independence, and equality in love, Jane Eyre examines Victorian ideas about gender, class, religion, and marriage.

The study guide gives

• a point form summary of the text including the key quotes
• the key themes, characters and conceptual questions about the text
• an analysis and commentary on the Section A task
• a method for analysing Section A questions and writing responses
• 25 essay questions and a discussion of each question
• detailed analysis and full responses to five essay questions
• a one page summary of basic facts, incident, themes and quotes from the text

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Debra Dank is a Gudanji and Wakaja woman from the Barkly Tableland region of the Northern Territory. The book is a group of episodes or vignettes that tell different anecdotes, stories and descriptive passages about Dank’s family, her people and the place that made her. It is the middle narrative section of Dank’s PhD thesis about her culture.

This study guide gives

• a point form summary of the text including the key quotes
• the key themes, character sketches and conceptual questions and answers about the text
• an analysis and commentary on the Section A task
• a method for analysing Section A questions and writing responses
• 25 essay questions and a discussion of each question
• detailed analysis and full responses to three essay questions
• a one page summary checklist of Basic facts incidents, themes and quotes

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This first novel written in her teens by Miles Franklin is based on her own experiences of bush life’. It tells of Sybylla Melvyn, a spirited and outspoken young woman living in difficult rural circumstances who is constrained by financial hardship and rigid expectations about marriage and femininity.

The study guide gives

• a point form summary of the text including the key quotes
• the key themes, characters and conceptual questions about the text
• an analysis and commentary on the Section A task
• a method for analysing Section A questions and writing responses
• 25 essay questions and a discussion of each question
• detailed analysis and full responses to five essay questions
• a one page summary of basic facts, incident, themes and quotes from the text

They are instantly downloadable if paying by credit card, or use a school order number to have them delivered by email within 24 hours.