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
Paper 2 q 5- Theme parks
Short extracts to practise with first, theme parks question and planning grid, ARRESTED table with examples (based on q about the merits of prom) } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Topics: Imagined Worlds
Exam/Board: AQA
A Christmas Carol Starter Task
A starter task on the context introduced in stave 1,2,3 and how this links to characters, useful for year 10/11} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Topics: Imagined Worlds
Exam/Board: AQA
Photo prompts for creative writing
A collection of photographs to choose from to inspire your students' writing. I've cropped short most of my portrait shots to help them suit a slide better, and over-saturated the colour on many of the images so that they hold their tones when projected onto the board. There's a mix of urban, rural...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Writing
Topics: Imagined Worlds
Exam/Board: AQA
Unseen Prose Practice Questions (Modern times)
Practice unseen prose questions I have made for AQA English Literature A Paper 2: Texts in Shared Contexts. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level lit (A)
Unit: Paper 2: Texts in shared contexts
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
Exemplar Paper 1, q4 City of the Beasts: extract, question and exemplar response
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Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
Unseen Poetry Practice- 24 mark q and 8 mark comparison q- Westminster Bridge and Winter Night Edinburgh
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Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
Unseen Poetry- Helpsheet- Ideas and Techniques to Look for
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Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
Yr 9 Planning and Writing a Poetry response -Planning grid plus poem to practise- Not My Business by Niyi Osundare
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Level: Key Stage 3
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
AQA Power and Conflict Cluster Exemplar: Personal loss in Poppies and My Last Duchess
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Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
Paper 1, q5 Descriptive Exemplar- Describe a place that is far away.
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Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
Word Banks for Poetry anthology-useful for analysis of either cluster
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Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
Unseen Practice questions plus 8 mark comparison exemplar
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Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
P2 Language Self-Assessment Q2-4
It's a word document, so you can edit as you wish. I've used wording which mirrors the AQA mark scheme. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
Describing the weather
This is a sheet of words to describe different types of weather. We use for Paper 1 Question 5 and teach students to start their descriptions by concentrating on the weather.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Writing
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
English Language Paper 2 Question 5 - school uniform
This PPT helps students to prepare a school magazine article about the advantages/ disadvantages of school uniform. It includes model introduction and a model of a weak point to improve. We use it for intervention after school.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Writing
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA