VU22636 - Give and follow a range of complex instructions in an employment context

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Unit code: VU22636 | Study level: TAFE
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St Albans
Werribee
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required by EAL learners to analyse and give complex spoken instructions in a work context.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills and knowledge:

  • vocabulary and expressions for a wide range of topics related to employment interests;
  • a wide range of common collocations;
  • simple, compound and complex sentences with a range of subordinate clauses;
  • a wide range of verb tenses and verb forms;
  • most modal forms;
  • a wide range of questions and instructions using a range of verb forms;
  • a wide range of phrasal verbs;
  • a wide range of adjectives, adverbs, adverbial phrases and prepositional phrases;
  • a wide range of discourse markers;
  • a wide range of conjunctions (subordinating and coordinating);
  • use tone, intonation and stress to influence meaning in spoken language;
  • a wide range of registers, styles and conventions used in spoken discourse;
  • a wide range of common idioms and colloquial expressions;
  • an awareness of English varieties;
  • recognition of a range of cues for inferred meaning, such as logical, contextual and paralinguistic (body language), and;
  • knowledge of aspects of Australian workplace culture which may impact on how instructions can be delivered, such as politeness forms.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.

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