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This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• communication
• community engagement
• cultural understanding
• digital literacy
• social skills

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 9 English

Students can:

• listen to spoken texts that have different purposes and audiences, analysing how language features position listeners to respond in particular ways, and use interacting skills to present and discuss opinions regarding these texts (AC9E9LY02).

Year 10 English

Students can: 

• analyse representations of individuals, groups and places and evaluate how they reflect their context in literary texts by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E10LE01)
•  listen to spoken texts and explain the purposes and effects of text structures and language features, and use interaction skills to discuss and present an opinion about these texts (AC9E10LY02).

Relevant parts of Year 9 English achievement standards: Students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and multimodal texts, including literary texts. With a range of purposes and for audiences, they discuss and expand on ideas, shaping meaning and providing substantiation. 

Relevant parts of Year 10 English achievement standards: Students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and multimodal texts, including literary texts. With a range of purposes and for audiences, they discuss ideas and responses to representation, making connections and providing substantiation. 

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Digital Literacy, Intercultural Understanding, Literacy, Personal and Social Capability

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - set the task, provide equipment as necessary and support students through planning and scripting.

UN SDG 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

• Target 16. a - Strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime.

• Device capable of displaying audiovisual material
• Student Worksheet (1 per student)
• Heroes of the Game Factsheets
• Student access to individual digital devices such as iPads, tablets or laptops

These resources have been created with the support of the Australian Commonwealth Games Team, via Commonwealth Games Australia.

The Australian Commonwealth Games Team are set to take on the athletes of he world at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games from next year, and together the more than 250 athletes in green and gold aim to be the top nation at the Games in terms of gold and overall medals won, the number of medallists, and the number of sports winning medals.

You can cheer on Australia’s best across the screens of 7 and 7Plus from 23 July 2026.

How to Teach Critical Thinking General Capability - Secondary 

Quick Summary: This course will help you teach your students to view the world more critically by introspectively exploring their own biases in thinking.