Extended Writing – Practice Examination Task Outline
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
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Robert Burns – To A Mouse
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...
Spoken Language Study: Advice for Assessment
This video contains my advice to students completing their GCSE Assessment after a Spoken Language Study that investigated the movement of features of spoken language that have moved into text and instant messaging communication. The question that the assessment will answer is: Explore the features of the language used in digital communications which suggest they are closer to spoken rather than written language. Comment on public...
Spoken Language Study: Structure
As part of our preparation for the Spoken Language Study, we’ve been exploring the idea of structuring extended answers. The attached image is the result of an exercise where everyone was given these paragraph starters in a randomised order, and they had to select an order and justify why they chose it.
Homework: Perfect Paragraph
As our lesson was interrupted by a fire alarm on Wednesday, this “Perfect Paragraph” exercise is now due on Friday. That task is simple: Follow the instructions in your book to improve your existing paragraph on the features of language typical of spoken conversations. This is due on Friday
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Spoken Language Transcripts Sep 12, 2014