by melaniewp | Sep 22, 2015 | AQA GCSE English Language, Slang, Spoken Language
If you’re learning about attitudes to slang for English Language GCSE, here are some interesting examples of recent slang, from 2013 and 2014. Get a slang transcript here.How is slang invented?words are borrowed from other languages, like ’emoji’...
by melaniewp | Sep 21, 2015 | AQA GCSE English Language, Spoken Language, Transcript
If you’re teaching or learning about Spoken Language for the GCSE controlled assessment, here’s a recording and transcript of a conversation about slang. It’s only a minute and a half, that shows attitudes to slang as well as examples of it.There are...
by melaniewp | Feb 10, 2014 | Controlled Assessment, English Language, GCSE, Obama, Spoken Language, Winston Churchill
If you’re doing the spoken language controlled assessment, you might like to practice on this question about language and power. The two texts are: an Obama speech and Churchill’s speech, ‘We Will Fight them’.* *You’ll need to scroll to...
by melaniewp | Apr 19, 2013 | Controlled Assessment, GCSE, Spoken Language, Technical Terms, Text Language
2b or not 2b? Despite doom-laden prophecies, texting has not been the disaster for language many feared, argues linguistics professor David Crystal. (abridged) (c) 2008 The Guardian and David Crystal… Although many texters enjoy breaking language rules, they also know...
by melaniewp | Apr 18, 2013 | Controlled Assessment, English Language, GCSE, Spoken Language, Technical Terms
*Pragmatics is the context of the message – e.g. age of participants, relative status, locations, job, hobbies etc.*Prosodic features – elements which mimic spoken language, e.g. sounds like: grr, urr (eurgh), er, mmm*Idiolect – the distinctive way that an individual...
by melaniewp | Apr 14, 2013 | Controlled Assessment, GCSE, Model Essays, Spoken Language
This is for the GCSE Controlled Assessment for Spoken Language Study. It focusses on two transcripts of David Cameron’s language in different contexts. If there are any technical terms you don’t understand use the glossary which I link to at the bottom of...
