Spoken Language Transcripts

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Sep 12, 2014

Today we will be exploring live spoken conversation – and generating our own transcripts. Watch this short video excerpt (from the film “FIT”) and try to write your own transcript of the conversation.   SAMPLE TRANSCRIPT: Download (PDF,...

Out of the Blue by Simon Armitage

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Mar 23, 2014

Extended Writing – Practice Examination Task Outline

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Feb 6, 2014

Monday’s examination slot is being used as an opportunity for you to practice writing a controlled assessment style essay. Attached to this post is the task outline which should allow you to prepare yourself for this session. Your practice essay will be marked and you’ll be able to use this feedback to support your formal assessment next term. To prepare: Write a bullet point outline of the structure you’re going to...

Of Mice and Men – Advanced Quotation Strategies

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Feb 4, 2014

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Robert Burns – To A Mouse

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Feb 3, 2014

Today we will explore a stanza of Robert Burns’ Poem “To A Mouse” and discuss the intertextual relationship between its message and that of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy!   thy-lane  = alone Gang...

Of Mice and Men – Audio

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Dec 16, 2013