Language and Technology- Baron
A handout on Dennis Baron, A Better Pencil (2009) for AQA A level Paper 2 Language Change (technology). } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level lang
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Topics: Language diversity and change
Exam/Board: AQA
Language and Technology- McCulloch
A handout for students on Gretchen McCulloch's (2019) Because Internet for A Level Language.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level lang
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Topics: Language diversity and change
Exam/Board: AQA
Language and Technology- Seargeant
A little PowerPoint summary of Philip Seargeant's The Emoji Revolution (2019). } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level lang
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Topics: Language diversity and change
Exam/Board: AQA
Variations Quiz
A revision quiz for AQA A Level Language Paper 2. Good for a starter. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level lang
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Topics: Language diversity and change
Exam/Board: AQA
WJEC Narrative Exemplars
Welsh board exemplars Creative Narrative Writing } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Writing
Topics: Language diversity and change
Exam/Board: WJEC
Opinion article question on accent
A Language paper 2 opinion article question using a BBC article on accents as its stimulus.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level lang
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Topics: Writing skills
Exam/Board: AQA
AQA structure (Q3) scaffolded guide
Here, I have used the "City of Beasts" extract and created a series of repetitive questions for pupils, to assist them in looking for CHANGES within a text and the subsequent impact of these, on reader experience.I have prompted my pupils to alter the word structure to "changes" and this has really...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Reading
Topics: Writing skills
Exam/Board: AQA
The Ruby in the Smoke
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Level: Key Stage 3
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Reading
Topics: Writing skills
Exam/Board: AQA
Create A Christmas Carol board game
A ppt to show students how to create a snakes and ladders style board game. Scrooge's positive actions are the ladders. The negative actions are the snakes. It can be printed out to be completed using colouring pencils or it can be converted to a google doc and shared with students...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Set Exam Texts (Novels)
Topics: Writing skills
Exam/Board: AQA
Hero Rats - a variety of resources for Functional Skills classes
Some resources I put together on the Apopo rats, who sniff out landmines and disease. My students really enjoyed this topic. Lots of information can be found on the Apopo site. This topic covered 2-3 lessonsI am not at the stage where my FS resources are mapped in to standards, as am quite new to th...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Writing
Topics: Writing skills
Exam/Board: AQA
Fake News - a selection of activities for Functional Skills L1 and L2
Many of these materials are for blended/interactive use on my Google Classroom, and I have attempted to convert them to paper based for easier sharing.This is the first FS topic I am uploading. I'm not quite at the point of explicitly mapping in to standards, so this more of a 'pitched' attempt rega...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Writing
Topics: Writing skills
Exam/Board: AQA
A Christmas Carol Starter Task
A Christmas Carol starter focusing on stave 1 and 2, can be a useful revision resource.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Topics: Writing skills
Exam/Board: AQA
Representations and Variations Q1-2
Two texts both on elephants for Q1-3 on paper 1. One is a WWF advert and the second is from George Orwell in 1936. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level lang
Unit: Paper 1: Language, the individual and society
Topics: Textual variations
Exam/Board: AQA
GCSE English Language Paper 1 revision booklet
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Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Topics: Textual variations
Exam/Board: AQA
Types of Language Change
Gives examples of aspects of English which have changed over time. Includes a practice Q3 style task using podcasts as texts. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level lang
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Topics: Language diversity and change
Exam/Board: AQA
Reasons for Language Change
Runs through lots of reasons for language change including the views of Crystal, Trask, Lerer, Hitchings, Goodman, Fairclough, Lane Greene, Aitchison, McWhorter, Chen, Bailey, Deutscher, Eckert and Cameron. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level lang
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Topics: Language diversity and change
Exam/Board: AQA
Attitudes to Language Change
Covers prescriptivism and descriptivism, the role and history of dictionaries of English, Deborah Cameron's Verbal Hygiene and a practice question.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level lang
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Topics: Language diversity and change
Exam/Board: AQA
A Level Language Change: Attitudes, Why, and How.
This has been my pet project since August! Lots of reading went into it. It's a mammoth presentation split into three main sections: 1) attitudes (prescriptivism, descriptivism, dictionaries, verbal hygiene); 2) reasons for language change including theories); 3) types of language change (lexical, s...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level lang
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Topics: Language diversity and change
Exam/Board: AQA
The Handmaid's Tale Student Responses
A short student response for the presentation/significance of Serena Joy. This also includes the mark scheme and WWW/EBI space for students to assess the piece.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Paper 1 - telling stories
Topics: Imagined Worlds
Exam/Board: AQA
Yr 7-8 model language analysis paragraphs
Based on a variety of different texts ( not included). Useful as starter, examining the structure of an analytical paragraph and emboldened useful words and phrases to help pupils understand how to word their analysis. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Course: A Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Reading
Topics: Imagined Worlds
Exam/Board: AQA
