Tertiary Catalogue

For letters to the editor, online discussions and essays, being able to express your point of view effectively is very useful. This video highlights that you don't have to use complicated sentences to write a good persuasive text—clear and...Show More

Statements, Questions and Commands: Developing Characters

Characters are an essential component of many narrative texts, such as a novel or a short story. This video shows how you can use a variety of sentence types – statements, questions and commands – in your narrative writing to develop...Show More

Compound Sentences: Showing Relationships Between Instructions

To write a recipe that's easy to understand and follow, it's important to show the relationships between a series of individual instructions or directions. This video covers how to combine simple commands into compound sentences, using the...Show More

Simple Sentences: Stating Opinions and Persuading

When writing a movie review, it is important to be able to express your opinions and conclusions precisely. This video reinforces that sometimes, it can be more effective to use simple sentences, rather than compound or complex sentences, for...Show More

Statements and Commands: Giving Instructions

A good instructional text needs to get your message across clearly and be easy for readers to follow. This video explains the difference between two sentence types commonly found in informative texts—statements and commands—and how to use...Show More

Statements: Presenting Facts and Findings

When writing a biography, article, report or instruction manual, delivering information in a clear and engaging way is crucial. This video introduces the two most common sentence types found in informative texts—statements and commands—and...Show More

Simple Sentences: Creating Drama and Tension

A well-written narrative, such as a short story, poem or script, can be exciting, tense and suspenseful. This video illustrates how short, simple sentences can be used to create a different pace and mood in narrative writing, compared to longer...Show More

Simple Sentences: Stating Opinions and Conclusions

There's a skill to writing great science reports that are both clear and easy to understand. This video identifies the sections of a report where it can be better to use simple sentences, rather than more detailed ones, to make it easy for...Show More

Compound Sentences: Showing Relationships Between Events

When writing a recount, such as a diary entry, you might find yourself needing to show the relationships or connections between ideas. This video explains how to use compound sentences to describe a series of events, using the coordinating...Show More

Overcome a Writing Block

2 Minutes to Success

Overcome a Writing Block is a video addressing a common problem of writer's block. For many of us, it's fear of staring at a blank page and wondering what to say. In this video, behavioural expert Peter Quarry explains how to overcome a writing...Show More

This Town Is Giving Me a Hard Time

A sad goodbye, an awkward encounter at work, and Tommy misses out (again) on speaking to Anna.

Dancing These Days Away

A series of unfortunate events finally force Tommy to seek out Anna's help.

Spending My Days Thinking of You

Missed opportunities, a faulty bicycle, and Tommy can't catch a break.

Running around This Town

In the sleepy seaside town of Days Crossing, local courier Tommy Ballad juggles a demanding work schedule with building up the courage to talk to the girl of his dreams, Anna.

Episode 3

A startling discovery and a series of frightening events lead Emma to question her sanity.

Episode 2

Things take a strange and unsettling turn for Emma after Sophie disappears while they are swimming together.

Episode 4

As the mystery deepens, Emma is unsure if she will ever find her way out of Skippers Pass.

Episode 1