WACE Tamil Second Language ATAR case studies
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The WACE Tamil Second Language ATAR is a Western Australian senior-secondary language course and ATAR examination administered within the WACE framework by the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (SCSA), the statutory body that sets curriculum, assessment and certification standards for Western Australian schools. It suits Year 11 and Year 12 students who already have some background in Tamil - typically home or heritage speakers and school learners - and who want a language counted toward their ATAR pathway. The WACE Tamil Second Language ATAR case studies are 5 cases and about 2,113 words.
1The Overlapping Announcement at the Perunkulam Market
You are listening to a recording made at Perunkulam market for a school listening task. The audio plays twice only.
478 words, about 2 min2Reading a Letter About a Temple Festival Donation
You read a two-paragraph letter in Tamil from a village temple committee to a family that moved to Perth. Paragraph one thanks the family for a 5,000-rupee donation last year and describes the festival: three days, 400 attendees, a new sound system.
388 words, about 2 min3Writing a Reply When the Register Does Not Match the Reader
Your Tamil class must write a 120-word reply, in Tamil, to a school principal in Jaffna inviting your class to take part in a debate by video link. Constraints: the principal is older, the relationship is formal, and the reply must (a) accept, (b) ask for the debate topic and time, and (c) mention that your school has 22 students and one unreliable internet connection.
421 words, about 2 min4Analysing Two Opinions on Mother-Tongue Schooling
You read two short opinion pieces in Tamil. Writer A, a retired teacher, argues that children must be taught in Tamil first because 'a tree without roots falls', and cites her own village school where 90 percent of students passed public exams in the 1980s.
419 words, about 2 min5Speaking Task: Disagreeing With a Grandparent on Screen Time
In a paired speaking task you must role-play a conversation in Tamil with a partner playing your grandmother. She says children today 'live inside the phone' and that in her time children learned respect by helping elders.
407 words, about 2 min