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Cambridge Essential English for Queensland Second Edition comprehensively covers the revised Essential English syllabus to be implemented for Year 11 in 2025 and Year 12 in 2026 and includes new high-interest content:

• A new chapter in Unit 1: Language that Works focuses on working in the live entertainment industry, enabling students to explore aspects of workplace communication.
• New texts and extracts in Units 1 and 2 include autobiographical works, scientific articles, reflective texts, television shows and feature-length films, as well as examples of live entertainment marketing and an expanded Stolen Generations case study.
• New texts in Unit 3 on the fashion chain, include a documentary (Textile Mountain), a book (Consumed) and podcast episodes.
• New texts in Unit 4 include the television series American Born Chinese and a new extended text study on Chloe Hooper’s work The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire, about the deadly Churchill fires of Black Saturday, 2009.

Features

• Extensive support for the Common Internal Assessment including a chapter to prepare students for their Response to Stimulus CIA with examples and scaffolded practice activities.
• New embedded teacher explanation notes offer alternative ideas for tasks, approaches, and assessment ideas.
• Scaffolded teaching with routines, activities and extension tasks to suit a range of student needs.
• Support for teachers Contextual information at the start of each chapter supports all teachers, including those new to teaching English. An introductory chapter, with explanations and key literacy routines and strategy examples.
• The ‘Glossex’, a combination of glossary and an index, is a useful tool allowing students to expand their vocabulary by listing and defining important or difficult words.