OCR A Level English Language Revision Paper 2 Section C - Language Change

This is a package of classroom materials (12 print, 4 PowerPoint and 4 videos) to help teachers support students prepare for Question 3 on Paper 2 (36 marks) - Language change

It contains useful classroom material - for active use by students in the classroom as well as summary handouts for students to take away. The materials are accompanied by videos that teachers can either use themselves to prepare for class or to share with students when they start to revise independently. The materials include a demonstration of how to prepare and plan a change exam essay using 2 recipe texts.

The revision materials are sequenced as follows:
They start with the review of broad time periods (Mark scheme: AO3 “possible effect of contextual factors” “how context might account for variations”) to help orientate your students about what external factors might have impacted on the writing they will be presented with in the exam.

Next they help students to revise key language concepts they have met over their 2 years of study to help remind them about how these could be used to best effect in this synoptic exam task to achieve highly in AO4 (Mark scheme: “appropriate linguistic concepts”)

Finally, there is revision of language features especially useful for this exam question (AO1) arranged by language level to help students make a systematic comparative analysis (Mark scheme: “apply a range of appropriate methods in an assured and systematic way”) of the 2 texts within the exam.

The package contains the following materials:

1. AO3 revision - broad historical periods - blank grid (.doc)
2. AO3 revision - broad historical periods - grid complete (.pdf)
3. AO3 Broad historical context affecting language change - summary (.pppt)
4. AO4 Useful key concepts for language change - full (.ppt)
5. AO4 Useful key concepts for language change - summary (.ppt)
6. AO4 How to apply conceptual knowledge in a language change comparative analysis (.doc)
7. AO1 - using the language levels to approach the 2 change texts (.doc)
8. AO1 Prompts for approaching the 2 texts - arranged by language level - blank (.doc)
9. AO1 Prompts for approaching the 2 texts - arranged by language level - completed (.doc)
10. AO1 and AO3 - Inferring context from language indicators (.doc)
11. Suggested essay structure for language change comparative exam task (.pdf)
12. How to approach a Language Change exam essay (Recipes) (.ppt)
13. Recipe texts for comparison (.doc)
14. Recipe texts - indicative content (.doc)
15. Links to videos which support these documents (.pdf)