Free Year 9 Language empowering relationships a... Practice | Skillo
Skillo provides free Year 9 NAPLAN Language empowering relationships and roles practice (AC9E9LA01) for Australian students. No signup, no email, no credit card. Practice questions aligned with the ACARA Australian Curriculum v9.0 strand. Open and start in 10 seconds.
Year 9 students sitting their final NAPLAN need to be confident with language empowering relationships and roles. Recognise how language empowers relationships and roles — how word choice, sentence structure and register can position speakers/writers as authoritative, persuasive, inclusive or exclusive. Skillo has targeted practice questions for this exact skill, mapped to the Australian Curriculum v9.0, free and ready to go.
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What does the Year 9 NAPLAN Language empowering relationships and roles test cover?
- Recognise how language empowers relationships and roles — how word choice, sentence structure and register can position speakers/writers as authoritative, persuasive, inclusive or exclusive.
- Questions test identification and correction of errors
- Both Australian English conventions and sentence structure are assessed
Try a sample Language empowering relationships and roles question
Question 1 — Easy
Mei had never played basketball before. ___, she joined the school team and trained twice a week.
Answer: 'Nevertheless' is correct because it signals that despite having no prior experience (the obstacle), Mei still joined the team. 'Therefore' signals a logical conclusion following from the first statement, but having no experience does not logically lead to joining a team. 'Furthermore' and 'in addition' both signal the addition of related information, not a contrast between an obstacle and an action taken despite that obstacle.
Question 2 — Medium
Read the sentence below. 'The rescue team _____ through the flooded valley for six hours before they finally located the missing bushwalkers.' Which verb group correctly completes the sentence?
Answer: The past perfect continuous 'had been wading' is correct because it expresses an ongoing action (six hours of wading) that was completed before another past event (locating the bushwalkers). Option D ('had waded') uses the simple past perfect, which does not convey the continuous duration signalled by 'for six hours'.
Question 3 — Hard
Read the sentence below. 'Having studied all weekend, the exam felt straightforward to Mateo.' A student wants to rewrite this sentence so that the modifier clearly refers to the correct subject. Which option best achieves this?
Answer: Option A correctly places the subject 'Mateo' immediately after the participial phrase 'Having studied all weekend', making it clear that Mateo — not the exam — did the studying. Option B, while grammatically acceptable, places the modifier after the main clause, which weakens the connection and is a less precise correction. Option C avoids the participial phrase altogether by using a relative clause, changing the sentence structure rather than fixing the modifier. Option D repeats the original error by placing 'the exam' as the subject of the participial phrase.
How should my child prepare for Year 9 NAPLAN Language empowering relationships and roles?
- Select Year 9 and Grammar on the home screen
- Use Quick Practice — questions on language empowering relationships and roles will appear as part of the session
- Check the Skill Breakdown on your profile to track your accuracy on language empowering relationships and roles specifically
- Review explanations after each question to understand the reasoning behind correct answers
Skillo is free, requires no email or account details, and is built specifically for Australian students. Every question is mapped to the Australian Curriculum v9.0 and filtered by skill so your child practises exactly what they need.
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