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English: English 3 & 4

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Essential Resources

English Units 3 & 4: Curriculum alignment 2023 - 2027

Oral Presentation Resources

Want to help with ideas and information for your oral presentation? Try 360info.

Developed by UNSW and Monash University, 360info supplies content to other publishers via our newswire service. This website is a publicly accessible repository. Content published on this website is subject to a 2-day delay, 

360 operates as a “wire agency” supplying contextual and explanatory news features ready-for-publication on other publisher’s outlets at no cost under Creative Commons.

360info addresses the world’s key challenges as broadly defined by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. 

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Check out The Spinney Press for hand-picked websites that have must-read information on your issue.

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BTN, but not as you remember it. This is a new product from ABC and explains the issues in the media in ways appropriate to secondary school students. Moreover, the issues are often put as questions to be answered. This is very good for thinking about the central message of your own oral presentation. 

 If you prefer watching rather than reading what is in the news, and having it explained, then this is a useful resource for you.

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Issues in Society

Issues in Society are publications designed specifically for Australian high school students. You will find helpful, reliable information from a variety of sources.

 

TIME-SAVING: thoroughly researched and edited content, compiled and reproduced from a wide variety of trusted sources.
TOPICAL, accessible information for assignments, essays and debates.
BALANCED OPINIONS and varying viewpoints for a diverse overview on controversial topics.
SOURCES INCLUDE: newspaper reports, opinions, magazine and journal articles, special interest groups, government reports, website fact sheets, statistics and surveys.


AVAILABLE IN PRINT AND DIGITAL EDITIONS

You can find print copies of Issues in Society in the Nora Collisson Centre, or you can search for specific topics via our library catalogue. When on campus, you can view and download digital editions here. If you are off-campus, you will need a password for access the digital copies - click here for more information and to download the password.

Topics are listed under the following subheadings:

  • Crime and Justice
  • Drugs and Alcohol
  • Economics and Welfare
  • Environment and Global Issues
  • Family and Relationships
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Indigenous and Race Issues
  • Nationhood and Civics
  • Media and Communication
  • Rights and Discrimination
  • Science and Bioethics

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