AS English Language

The Course New Specification: Edexcel Unit 1: Language Today Unit 2: Exploring the Writing Process

Language Today A ‘Toolkit’ of terminology: Sounds (phonology) Words (morphology, lexis) Sentences (word class, syntax) Texts (discourse structures) Meanings (semantics, pragmatics)

Language Today Gender and age differences The effect of technology Language use in occupations Power and dialect ‘Presenting the self’

Exploring the Writing Process Coursework unit: ongoing, many drafts Two texts plus commentaries Professional writing 1. Journalistic Writing  Based on spoken recordings 2. Monologue  Audience, style models

On to A2 Applying the AS learning A presentation and research project on a topic of their own choosing Language variation: Time, Place, Genre Child language acquisition

How can we help? Revision textbook Other ‘textbooks’ Reading, reading, reading …and Listening Be a ‘model’ Be an ‘audience’ Self-testing, games and practice (Easier said than done.)

The horse raced past the barn fell How can this sentence make sense? The answer lies in grammar, syntax and semantics It’s elliptical…  The horse (which was) raced… The main verb’s in an unusual place…  …past the barn fell And it uses a less familiar voice (passive)

Curly Tales of War Pigs Once upon a time, there were three little pigs of the genus Sus (see SWINE), from which they are distinguishable by the presence in the males of a long horny ridge below the eye. So the first one lived in a House of Stone and Light, a luxury vacation home in the Western North Carolina Great Smokey Mountains, available for year-round vacation rental.

Curly Tales deconstructed Register  Fairy Tale  Encyclopaedia  Holiday Brochure Cohesion  ‘they’?  See…  War Pigs? Dialect Homophony, puns, semantics Once upon a time, there were three little pigs of the genus Sus (see SWINE), from which they are distinguishable by the presence in the males of a long horny ridge below the eye. So the first one lived in a House of Stone and Light, a luxury vacation home in the Western North Carolina Great Smokey Mountains, available for year-round vacation rental.