Year 9 LAC English September

1.                language - Language refers to words and their use.
 

2.                proverb - A proverb is a short, well-known saying that states the truth.
 

3.                anagram - An anagram is a word or phrase made by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
 

4.                singular - Singular is the form of a noun or verb used when it stands for only one person or thing.

5.                plural - Plural is the form of a noun or verb used when it stands for more than one person or thing.

Year 9 LAC English October

1.                character - A character is a person who appears in a novel.
 

2.                chapter - A novel is divided into several chapters.
 

3.                paragraph - A paragraph is a number of sentences about one topic.

4.                biography - A biography is the story of someone’s life, written by another person.
 

5.                autobiography - An autobiography is the story of someone’s life, written by himself or herself.
 

Year 9 LAC English November

1.                rhythm – Rhythm is a measured beat in poetry.
 

2.                rhyme –  Rhyme is the repetition of similar sounds at the end of a line.
 

3.                stanza – A stanza is a verse of poetry.
 

4.                sonnet – A sonnet is a poem of 14 lines with a fixed arrangement of rhymes.
 

5.                ballad - A ballad is a simple song or poem, especially one telling a story.
 

Year 9 LAC English December

1.                literature - Books and other writings.  Poems, novels, plays and short stories are all works of literature.
 

2.                setting - Setting is the term used to refer to the place and time in which events in a story occur.
 

3.                extract - An extract is a passage taken from a book, speech or film.
 

4.                text - The words of something written or printed and called  text.
 

5.                plot - The story of a play, novel or film is referred to as the plot.
 

Year 9 LAC English January

1.                curriculum - A course of study in schools.
 

2.                syllabus - A summary of the things to be studied by a class.
 

3.                assignment - An assignment is a task.
 

4.                instructions - Instructions are orders or rules for guiding someone in a task.
 

5.                research – Research is careful study or investigation to discover facts or information.
 

Year 9 LAC English February

1.                audience - The person (or people) you are speaking to are the audience.
 

2.                clause - A group of words that contains a complete verb and makes sense.
 

3.                conjunction - Conjunctions are words that join other words together.  In particular they join phrases and clauses.
 

4.                dialect - The form of a language used in a particular area (regional, local dialect) or by a particular group of people (social dialect).
 

5.                draft - When we are writing something it often goes through a number of stages:  we write it, read it through, think about it and rewrite it or alter it.  Each version of the writing is called a draft.
 

Year 9 LAC English March

1.                loan word - A word that is borrowed from another language.  In English ‘café’ is a borrowing word from French, ‘bungalow’ is a borrowing from Gujaratti.
 

2.                narrative - Writing or talking that tells the story of something that happened.  A narrative may be true or it may be fiction.
 

3.                narrator - The person who tells the story is the narrator.
 

4.                pronunciation - The way in which a person speaks the words of a language.
 

5.                prose - Writing in ordinary sentences.  Prose is different from verse or poetry.
 

Year 9 LAC English April

1.                formal language - When we are speaking to (or writing for) people we do not know well, we use language that is formal.  We pay more attention to what we say and how we say it.
 

2.                pun - A play on words.  Often words have more than one meaning (or two different words are pronounced the same way) and we can make jokes by playing with these meanings.  “Knock, knock” jokes often use puns.
 

3.                slang - Casual language that is special to one group of people.  Examples of this are school slang, e.g. ‘on the beak.’  It is often not acceptable outside that group.  If you use slang outside the proper group you may well be criticized or laughed at.
 

4.                topic - The subject matter of a piece of speech or writing are called vocabulary.
 

5.                vocabulary -The words of a language, or a piece of speech or writing.

Year 9 LAC English May

1.      explanation - Writing or talking that tells you the how and why of something.
 

2.                lecture - When a person talks to a group of people about a chosen subject in a formal way; the lecturer speaks and the audience listens without interrupting.
 

3.                simile - A simile is a figure of speech which asks us to picture one thing as being similar to another – often using the word ‘like’ or the words “as …….. as ……” to link our ‘pictures’ in the mind e.g. ‘as proud as a peacock’
 

4.                metaphor - A metaphor is a figure of speech which asks us to picture one thing as being (or merging with) another e.g. ‘the sea is a hungry dog.’
 

5.                alliteration – Alliteration is the deliberate repetition of consonants to achieve an effect e.g. ‘sir Samuel saw Sir Silas sinking.’