A-Level English Language 'Accent and Dialect' Scheme

This is an 11 Week scheme covering the ‘Accent and Dialect’ unit of the English Language A-Level AQA specification. It is designed to be taught over two half-terms with the first half-term focusing on regional dialect and the second on race and ethnicity. There is an assessment at the end of each half-term. Each lesson has a PowerPoint as well as resources.

Half-Term 1: Accent and Dialect

Lesson 1: Accent and Dialect
Lesson 2: Dialect Bias and Accentism
Lesson 3: Estuary and Geordie
Lesson 4: The Phonemic Alphabet
Lesson 5: Theorists
Lesson 6: Prescriptivism vs Descriptivism
Lesson 7: Paper 2 Question 1
Lesson 8: Comparing Articles
Lesson 9: Paper 2 Question 3
Lesson 10: Theorists Revision
Lesson 11: Assessment Preparation
Lesson 12: Assessment

Half-Term 2: Language, Ethnicity and Race
Lesson 1: Idiolect and Sociolect
Lesson 2: Multicultural London English
Lesson 3: Attitudes to MLE
Lesson 4: Article Comparison
Lesson 5: Theorists
Lesson 6: Language as Exclusionary
Lesson 7: African American Vernacular English
Lesson 8: Opinion Piece
Lesson 9: Drill and Grime
Lesson 10: Drill and Grime Continued
Lesson 11: Verbal Blackface
Lesson 12: Prescriptivism
Lesson 13: Theorists Revision
Lesson 14: Assessment Preparation
Lesson 15: Assessment