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Language and Sexuality
Starter activity introducing words from Polari in everyday use
Introduction to Martha’s Vineyard theory
Introduction to Lavender Linguistics and Polari with link to radio show
Legislation and sexuality timeline
Activity surround article written by Paul Baker
Links with Robin Lakoff’s work ‘A Woman’s Place’
Further reading: Extract from Gary Nunn article
Discussion activity surrounding language use surrounding lesbian and heterosexual women
Further links to articles surrounding Language and Sexuality for group work
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Accent & Dialect Bundle
Introductory starter activity about accent/dialect prejudice
Discussion and definitions of difference between accent and dialect
Introduction to Received Pronunciation with supporting video
Discussion of attitudes surrounding R.P
Videos tracking how R.P has changed over time - Fiona Bruce in 1999 vs. The Queen in 2020; attitudes to particular accents with supporting videos
Introduction to Standard English
Homework activity to research an accent and current attitudes towards it
Introduction to Howard Giles’ Accommodation Theory
Howard Giles’ Capital Punishment Experiment
Discussion/video surrounding the Birmingham accent and prejudice
Dixon, Mahoney and Cocks Birmingham accent study
The Workman Survey
Review activity - what is meant by ‘matched guise’
The Workman Survey (2008) + The OnBuy Survey (2020)
Peter Trudgill’s Norwich Study (1970s) - Including comprehension questions (answers provided)
Nikolas Coupland’s Cardiff Travel Agent Study (1984)
Discussion development video in response to Coupland’s study - current attitudes toward Welsh Accent
Includes homework task - survey into attitudes to accents
Review activity of theory covered so far.
Introduction to Multicultural London English with discussion activities, videos, two articles which invite students to compare attitudes towards MLE and its replacement of Cockey (articles included with lesson)
Introduction to Estuary English
A look at ‘famous’ speakers of Estuary English
Discussion and question activity surrounding the concept of ‘dialect levelling’
‘Initial ideas’ support
AO1 and AO2 phrased as questions to supporting thinking
Data from question included in presentation, too
What to include in an introduction with exemplar
Ideas to ‘build response’ with scaffolded questions
Exemplar ideas for how to include theorists in response to the data
Model paragraph for main body of essay on Slide 18
Homework task
Accent and Dialect Practice Exam Question
Practice exam question lesson based on the following question:
Discuss the idea that some accents and dialects are viewed more favorably than others. (Question with data included as word doc with this lesson)
‘Initial ideas’ support
AO1 and AO2 phrased as questions to supporting thinking
Data from question included in presentation, too
What to include in an introduction with exemplar
Ideas to ‘build response’ with scaffolded questions
Exemplar ideas for how to include theorists in response to the data
Model paragraph for main body of essay on Slide 18
Homework task
Accent & Dialect: Estuary English and MLE
Review activity of theory covered so far.
Introduction to Multicultural London English with discussion activities, videos, two articles which invite students to compare attitudes towards MLE and its replacement of Cockey (articles included with lesson)
Introduction to Estuary English
A look at ‘famous’ speakers of Estuary English
Discussion and question activity surrounding the concept of ‘dialect levelling’
Accent and Dialect Theory
Lesson includes key information and activities to support learning of the following theories
Introduction to Howard Giles’ Accommodation Theory
Howard Giles’ Capital Punishment Experiment
Discussion/video surrounding the Birmingham accent and prejudice
Dixon, Mahoney and Cocks Birmingham accent study
The Workman Survey
Review activity - what is meant by ‘matched guise’
The Workman Survey (2008) + The OnBuy Survey (2020)
Peter Trudgill’s Norwich Study (1970s) - Including comprehension questions (answers provided)
Nikolas Coupland’s Cardiff Travel Agent Study (1984)
Discussion development video in response to Coupland’s study - current attitudes toward Welsh Accent
Includes homework task - survey into attitudes to accents
Introduction to Accent & Dialect
Introductory starter activity about accent/dialect prejudice
Discussion and definitions of difference between accent and dialect
Introduction to Received Pronunciation with supporting video
Discussion of attitudes surrounding R.P
Videos tracking how R.P has changed over time - Fiona Bruce in 1999 vs. The Queen in 2020; attitudes to particular accents with supporting videos
Introduction to Standard English
Homework activity to research an accent and current attitudes towards it
Spoken Child Language Acquisition Revision Grid
Revision grid to allow students to review and revise key theoretical concepts for the spoken language element of Child Language Acquisition.
The grid covers the 4 key areas: Nativist theory, Nurture theory, Cognitive theory and Social interaction theory.
Headings of each topic area include key theories and studies to challenge the key areas.
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Spoken Child Language Acquisition: Bundle
Full SOW for teaching of key theoretical concepts for the spoken language aspect of Child Language Acquisition, alongside inclusion of practice exam questions and revision resources.
Gender Theory Bundle
Bundle SOW for teaching of AQA A Level English Language, Diversity and Change - Gender Theory.
The lessons are structured to be taught through the different ‘models’ of gender theory: Deficit, Difference, Dominance and Diversity and are interspersed with exam style questions to prepare students for the styles of questions presented at both AS and A Level.
Key revision materials for the content are also included, and accompanied with a lesson to introduce the ‘Waves of Feminism’ to support contextualisation of the key areas of theory.
The lessons are structured as follows:
Lesson 1: Introduction to English Language and Gender & Representation
Lesson 2: Deficit Model: Robin Lakoff and Women’s Place
Lesson 3: Difference Model
Lesson 4: Introduction to the Dominance Model and Conversation Terminology
Lesson 5: Review and Exam Style Question
Lesson 6: The Dominance Model Continued
Lesson 7: The Diversity Model
Lesson 8: Exam Question
Additional Lessons: Gender and Interaction Revision & Gender & Representation Revision
Child Directed Speech (CDS) - Key Aspect of Child Language Acquisition
Introduction to definition of Child Directed Speech
Key features of Child Directed Speech: Phonology, grammar & syntax, lexis and pragmatics
Slides 5-8 ask students to identify what features of CDS are present in the example utterances
Clarke Stewart’s theory of CDS
Criticism of CDS e.g. Papa New Guinea, Somoa and recent research into the benefits of CDS
Introduction to the concept of scaffolding used in CDS
Social Interactionism Theory of Child Language Acquisition: Key Theoretical Perspectives
Key information about Jerome Bruner’s theory of social interaction, including key terms and the 3 modes of representation
Information about how to apply Bruner’s theory to an examination question
Key information about Michael Tomasello’s theory, including key information about intention reading and pattern finding
Cognitivism Theory of Child Language Acquisition: Key Theoretical Perspectives
Introductory activity relating to key aspects of cognitive theory
Introduction to Piaget’s theory of cognitivism: Slides outline Piaget’s 4 stages of development and a video showing a child that has not yet mastered object permanence relating to Piaget’s theory
Introduction to Vygotsky’s theory of the Zone of Proximal Development and the More Knowledgeable Other
Video to aid discussion and identification of cognitivism and key aspects of the theory in a parent-child interaction, with the parent acting as the MKO
Key review of Halliday’s 7 functions of language
Behaviourism & Feral Child - Challenges to Nativism
Introductory discussion activity to promote thinking about how lack of interaction can impact children - linking to feral children
Lenneberg’s Critical Period theory information
Information and video about the case of Genie (‘feral’ child) from the 1970s in America, including key ideas and questions relating this to Lenneberg’s theory
Hart & Risley’s theory (1995) of academic progress of children from different socioeconomic backgrounds
Nature vs nurture information slide
For Behaviourism:
Information and videos about Pavlov’s dogs and the Watson & Rayner ‘Little Albert’ study
Key theoretical information about B/F Skinner’s theory of operant conditioning
Final slides includes criticism of Skinner’s theory
Nativism: Key Critical Perspective of Child Language Acquisition
Introductory discussion activity
Key ideas associated with Nativism, including video, such as Universal Grammar and Poverty of the Stimulus
Key supporting study: Nicaraguan sign language study
Short transcript activity to apply and consider whether Chomsky’s theory can be applied
Review activity where students are asked to define key terms associated with the theory in their own words
Introduction to Child Language Acquisition - Early Language Profile & The Key Stages of Development
Introductory discussion activity - child language profile
Pre-birth overview
The stages of language development - table to print
Activities based on the holophrastic stage and holophrastic utterances when a child moves beyond the pre-verbal stage
The Beginnings of Child Language Acquisition
Resource to support beginnings of teaching Child Language Acquisition, providing
Mehler - French babies
Fitzpatrick - Biological effects of language
Pre-verbal language development stages
Desmond Morris - Babbling Stage (6-12 months)
Proto-Words
Halliday’s functions
Match-up activity - match up the proto-words to the appropriate contextual information
Match up activity - match up the contextual information to Halliday’s functions
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An Inspector Calls Plot, Context, Setting, Form and Genre Bundle
An Inspector Calls Plot Revision Grid:
A blank revision grid designed for revision.
Can be easily adapted for other plays or texts in this unit.
Form and Genre Revision Lesson:
A starter to encourage pupils to consider how An Inspector Calls is a morality/whodunit/well-made play with links to AO2.
Top tips on how to analyse form in relation to the play.
A grid activity with information stations to allow pupils to retrieve information about the three forms of the play, building on the starter activity and space for them to consider the effects of form.
A slide exploring the Three Unities - pupils to consider where these are evidence in the play.
A review comprised of questions to check understanding.
Context and Setting Revision Lesson:
References to Assessment Objective 3 using AQA wording
Questions to prompt thinking about society in 1912 and Priestley
Information on social class and how society changed between 1912 (set) and 1945 (first performance)
Information about the police force in 1912
References to ‘fallen women’ and a table activity to generate analytical thought
Information on politics and working life
Activities to encourage pupils to consider key settings, particularly the opening of the play with Priestley’s use of stage directions.
Frankenstein Plot Revision Lesson: AQA English Literature
This resource will allow pupils to thoroughly revise the plot and narrative framing of Frankenstein. Easily differentiated.
The PowerPoint includes the following activities:
Starter with a fill in the gaps activity for key quotations from the novel. Answers included in notes section.
A detailed plot sort activity (including summaries which can be printed) of the whole novel
A quotation hunt activity
A fill in the gaps activity about the narrative framing of the novel
Key quotations about the narrative framing from the novel which has been adapted as a fill in the blanks activity. Answers included in notes section.
Narrative framing consolodation questions
Exam style question about how Shelley uses narrative framing in the novel
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
A Level English Literature: Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Plot and Structure Revision Activity
A revision resource for the structure and plot of the 7 phases in Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
Each phase is concisely summarised. The resource can be printed and cut up by the teacher to create a quick and easy revision activity for students.
Students have found this very helpful and challenging when revising the complex plot of the novel.
A Level English Language: Gender Theorist Grid
Appropriate for study of A Level English Language - used for AQA exam board currently.
This blank grid allows students to display information about gender theory.
Great to use whilst studying Language & Gender or as a revision aid in the lead up to the exam.
The grid allows students to visually display the following information:
Name and information about theorist and the date of publication of their theory
Gender Theory Model: ie Deficit, Difference, Diversity, Dominance
Information about the theory
Criticisms of the theory to aid evaluation
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.