Playing the Game Student Book (Stage 6 English Studies Module E)

For HSC Stage 6 English Studies: Elective Module E: Playing the Game

In Playing the Game, students are presented with an enriching study of a variety of classic and contemporary texts relating to recreational and professional sport. These include documentaries, non-fiction texts, poems, and feature articles.

By exploring these texts, students will cultivate a repertoire of skills, enabling them to comprehend, analyse, and assess sports-related content. Through looking at the way composers explore sports, team spirit, physical challenges and achievements, success and failure, the culture of sports, the nature of spectatorship, and the role of athletes in political activism, students will gain a deeper understanding of the ways sport functions in our society, and often mirrors social issues.

Contents

• Getting to Grips with Playing the Game – English in Sport
• Wide Reading
• English in Sport: A Study of Short Texts and Digital Texts
  • Art and Sport
  • Poetry and Sport
  • Politics and Sport
  • The Online Image of Sport
  • The Art of Persuasion in Sports Writing
  • Sports Podcasting
  • Sport in Rural Australia
• Core Text Study: A Sports Documentary
  • Film and Documentary Techniques
  • Multimodal Presentation
  • Extended Response Questions
• Collating Work for Your Portfolio
• Reflecting on Your Study of Playing the Game