VCE Modern Greek case studies
VCE Modern Greek · Put your knowledge to work in context.
VCE Modern Greek is a senior secondary language study in the Victorian Certificate of Education, taken by students who already have substantial grounding in Greek and want formal recognition of advanced reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. It suits both students with Greek-speaking family backgrounds and learners who have studied the language seriously through school. The VCE Modern Greek case studies are 5 cases and about 2,253 words.
1The Overheard Voicemail: Inferring Stance in a Listening Task
You are practising a VCE-style listening task. The recording (played twice) is a phone message from a 17-year-old, Eleni, to her cousin.
492 words, about 2 min2Register Shift in a Formal Letter of Complaint
For a Writing task you must produce a 200–250-word formal letter in Modern Greek to a hotel manager. The scenario: your school group's booked sea-view rooms were given to other guests, the group was moved to rooms facing a car park, and the air conditioning failed for two of the four nights.
447 words, about 2 min3Choosing Evidence in a Text-Analysis Response
You have studied a short prose text in which a grandmother refuses to leave her village during a fire evacuation, insisting that her house and her neighbours' graves are her responsibility. In the exam, a question asks: 'How does the writer shape the reader's sympathy for the grandmother?' (6 marks).
493 words, about 2 min4Oral: Handling a Question You Cannot Fully Answer
In the Oral examination conversation section, you have discussed your detailed study of a Greek-Australian family's return migration. The examiner asks: 'Ποια είναι η γνώμη σου για την απόφαση της οικογένειας να γυρίσει στην Ελλάδα;' You have opinions, but your vocabulary for 'economic opportunity' and 'belonging' is shaky, and you feel a strong urge to answer in one short sentence and stop.
389 words, about 2 min5Reading: Distinguishing Stated Fact from Implication
A reading passage is an opinion column about a coastal village's tourism boom. It states: visitor numbers have doubled in five years; the writer notes that «οι ντόπιοι πλέον νοικιάζουν τα σπίτια τους το καλοκαίρι και μένουν στα παλιά υποστατικά»; and it closes with «Ίσως κάποτε να θυμηθούμε γιατί αγαπήσαμε αυτόν τον τόπο».
432 words, about 2 min