Year 12 Cover Work

I will ask the sixth form team to email this to you all, but posting here too just in case. I have created a folder in our Google Drive (access this from the menu on the right of this page) called Cover Work. All of the work for next week, including copies of what I gave you on Tuesday are in here.

If you have any questions or technological difficulties, email me directly and I will forward the work to you.

Year 13 Cover Work

I have asked the sixth form office to email you all with the cover work, but I have also put it on the google drive. If you go to the Y13 Google Drive resources (link on the right of this page), you will see that I have create a folder called cover work. Everything that you need is in there, including copies of the sheets I gave you on Tuesday.

If you have any difficulties accessing it, please email me and I can send you the work directly.

Writing for a non-specialist audience: Y13 revision, Y12 pre-reading

Here's another example of an article written about a linguistic issue, but aimed at a non-specialist audience.

Both the AS and the A-Level paper require you to write this type of article, so it's worth reading as many of them as possible. The more that you read, the more likely you are to be able to write in this kind of style.

Notice how it transforms the linguistic ideas into language that is accessible for a general audience, for example:

"How do they even begin to separate, or “segment,” individual words from the stream of language that they hear all around them all of the time?"

Year 13 have learnt about segmenting in CLD this term. They should be able to use it hand-in-hand with the term 'gestalt expression'.

Year 12 Genre Conventions homework

This is due for Tuesday 22nd November

I would like you to investigate the genre conventions of charity adverts.

1. You need to be confident that you understand what 'genre' and 'genre conventions' actually mean. Do some research and write down some notes and definitions so that you are confident that you understand the concept.
2. Read the website here and have a go at the task: what do all of the adverts have in common?
3. You may wish to read more widely about charity adverts.
3. Produce a guide for year 7 children, informing them what genre conventions would be expected of a charity advert, ie/ a list of features they would need to include if they were to write their own charity advert. OR Create a poster with a charity advert of your choice in the middle, labelled with the genre conventions identified.
4. Identify these genre conventions in the Elephant text that we looked at on Tuesday. Make a list of genre features with quotations if appropriate
5. Challenge (optional): Write a paragraph evaluating how closely the elephant text adheres to genre conventions.

Grunwell done well? (Sorry, it's been a long day...)

Y13, I came across this Quizlet that someone has prepared to learn the typical ages that children acquire phonemes from. Add it to your list of private study tasks.

Year 12 Phonology homework

Research and make notes on the following terms for Tuesday's lesson (8th November)


Alliteration
Assonance
Sibilance
Consonance
Paralinguistics
Prosody
Sibilance
Glottal Stop
*How are different consonants described?
*What is the difference between phonology and phonetics?