English Language Transition Work June 2021

For each subject you will receive a detailed introduction to allow full transition into the college and your new learning. Please complete the weekly tasks outlined below and attend the meet sessions with the teachers for further guidance and information. Please keep all work created in a folder to present to me in the first lesson in September.

English Language A Level

Google Classroom Code:

Google Meet code:

AQA mlngkon

Meet link https://meet.google.com/lookup/d6anjqhzf4

Weekly Tasks Topic Resources

W/C 7.06.21

Introducing transcription.

What is a transcript and what are the features? Create a definition and create a list of symbols used to show, for example, pause, intonation, etc. What is important to note about the use of capital letters and punctuation? Research elements of spoken language Define the following: Adjacency Pairs Back Channels Pauses Hedging Deixis Overlaps Intonation Interruptions

W/C 14.6.20

Analyse a transcript

Look at the transcript below. Print it off and annotate with features you found in your research from last week.

TEXT A is from the BBC3 reality show Don’t Tell the Bride, in which the groom has to plan a wedding for his bride-to-be in secret. In this extract, Mike is making plans for his wedding to Becky. They are both professional wrestlers. They talk to friends and family about what they want on their wedding day, and Mike visits possible venues.

Write 2-3 paragraphs summarising your findings. The suggestions below may help:

the register

o level of formality/informality(tenor) o subject matter(field)

e.g. noticeable semantic fields, particular lexical sets, subject specific lexis

the participants

o age and gender

o social status

o relationship

o expert/amateur, professional/ members of the public, etc.

the participants’ relationship with the target audience o

directorindirect

o familiar or formal, somewherein-between, points ofc

hange o distant or immediate

o primary or secondary

each participant’s role in the interaction o create social

relationship( phatic)

o provide information, explain, interpret, entertain,

persuade, argue, etc.

turn-taking o length

o overlaps/interruptions

o back channel affirmation etc.

W/C 21.6.20

Researching the context of a transcript

On VE day, a speech delivered by the queen was broadcast. Listen to the speech and research the reason for the speech and the reactions to the speech and summarise in 2-3 paragraphs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEf9xMmYuo

W/C 28.6.20

Create a transcript

Select 1 minute of the Queen’s speech and transcribe it using the conventions you have learnt. Pay particular attention to intonation and pauses.

W/C 05.7.20

Introducing Grammar Transcript Annotation

Complete the GCSE Refresher course on Seneca Learning:

https://app.senecalearning.com/classroom/course/bfb81199-4dba-47c6-b646-43cc0bdd640f/section/a72dc248-5d9a-431e-9d83-2bc22c79fb24/session Revisit the transcript you produced of the Queen’s speech – annotate with the grammatical features you can identify. Identify at least 20 features

General resources and suggested reading: Specification Link: https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/english/as-and-a-level/english-language-7701-7702 Preferred websites: https://www.senecalearning.com

Blogs:

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.co.uk http://dialectblog.com http://david-crystal.blogspot.co.uk http://linguistics-research-digest.blogspot.co.uk http://geoffbarton.co.uk/student-resources.php http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language

Accessible texts to develop your knowledge: Bill Bryson: Mother Tongue “A delightful survey - though with its good humour, wealth of anecdote, and boyish

enthusiasm, "romp" would be a better word.” (David Crystal) David Marsh: For Who the Bell Tolls “an entertaining compendium of usage notes and essays. Most satisfying is an angry

chapter on so-called "political correctness", which demolishes the pretensions of those who think they have a God-given right to abuse those less fortunate than themselves.” (Steven Poole Guardian) David Crystal: The Fight for English

“elegant, accessible, illuminating” (Times Education Supplement) Robert Lane Greene: You are what you Speak "An insightful, accessible examination of the way in which day-to-day speech is tangled in a

complicated web of history, politics, race, economics and power."

Deborah Cameron: The Myth of Mars and Venus “In this vigorously argued book, [Cameron] also combats the cliché by example, writing in an enjoyable mode of pugnacious sarcasm” (Steven Poole, The Guardian) Deborah Tannen: You Just don’t Understand Tannen combines a novelist's ear for the way people speak with a rare power of original analysis ... fascinating (OLIVER SACKS) Julie Coleman: The Life of Slang “Completely fascinating ... immensely enjoyable ... Coleman's thinking lifts this book above the usual semi-disposable level of writing about rude words.” (James McConnachie, The Sunday Times) Lynne Truss: Eats, Shoots and Leaves ‘I laughed, I howled, and I immediately wanted to join the militant wing of the Apostrophe Society. This is great stuff: genuine, heartfelt and rousing.’ Jenny Colgan Henry Hitchens: The Language Wars: A History of Proper English 'It is a breath of fresh air (if that is the right cliché) to wander the byways of language without always being nudged to laugh at prescriptivists' foolish nostrums.' (Daily Telegraph)

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