ENGLISH LANGUAGE A LEVEL
OBJECTIVES:
To understand and evaluate the research of Coates, Pilkington and Kuiper.
To identify features of Lakoff’s ‘Deficit Model’ in a past exam text.
How can I apply and evaluate Tannen’s categorisation of male and female language features?
Can be used for Section B on the GCSE language papers - preparation. Also for the spoken language GCSE section.
Or for a Year 9 unit of work.
MLK
OBAMA
CHURCHILL
PANKHURST
SHAKESPEARE
JESSE JACKSON
PHELPS
ETC
Contains tons of speech examples so you don’t have to find any! Plus starter activities, essay planning grids and examples and speeches PPT. etc!
Will cover at least 6 lessons worth of work minimum.
Literacy activities / SPAG
Includes:
common spelling mistakes
possession
their there they’re
where were we’re
too to
apostrophes
capital letters
commas
modal verbs
adverbs
colon semicolons
etc!
Also included student worksheets they can fill in.
Great as starters or to clarify!
Gothic genre including starter, conventions, tasks, lists, questions, popular culture, creative writing.
At least 3 lessons worth.
Main Content:
Matching picture starter
Gothic conventions checklist
Gothic picture conversation activity
Related vocab activity
Questions based on The Gothic
Snap activity
Creative task A (2 activities – students pick 1)
Woman in Black extract and related questions
Write your own definition
Creative writing task B with planning and scaffolding
Peer marking checklist criteria
Of Mice and Men - exam style notes on key extracts
Includes:
Curley’s Wife
Slim
Crooks
Candy and his dog
The bunkhouse
Setting - beginning vs end
American Dream
Great Depression
Racsim
143 slides!
19th Century novel Jekyll and Hyde revision - themes, content, characters, exam questions, summaries etc.
Enough for at least 6 one hour lessons.
Can also be used as a revision pack.
143 SLIDES!
Main content:
‘Jekyll and Hyde’ expression meaning
Main exam criteria (edited to cover all main exam boards)
Stevenson info
What is context?
Notes on the main contextual themes
What to look for when reading
Guidance for mind-mapping main characters
Detailed analysis scaffolds
Lots of exam questions, broken down and scaffolded
Persuasive writing about rhino poaching.
KS4 or KS4.
INCLUDES WORK ON LANGUAGE DEVICES, MATCHUP, READING, COMPREHENSION, PLANNING GRID, ESSAY GUIDANCE AND PLAN, PERSUASIVE WRITING TASK.