How to tackle the Yr 13 Language Exam

This powerpoint will guide you through the June 2010 paper with info from the exam board and sample answers.
This is the Creole, Samual Johnson, Rough Guide paper.

June2010 feedback How to tackle the yr 13 Language Exam

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Coursework Task 1

What should go into your coursework Task 1
Introduction
State topic
Say why you chose it
Say why it is important to look into/listen to

Main
what theories exist?
how will you collect data?
how will you go about analysing the data (methodology)?
what might you find at the end of it?
what are the challenges?

Conclusion
You will take questions/suggest

Key things to remember
You are speaking to an audience of fellow students. So write it as a speech not an essay. Refer to theories and use some terminology but not too much. You will have a discussion afterwards with suggestions from students and teachers. You will then incorporate these into your task 2. You will hand in your task 1 speech and powerpoint slides the following week.

David Crystal on Spelling

Crystal's ideas on English orthography

Crystal on Spelling

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1066 and all that... History of English Site

This is a really good web site that contains all the key information that you need to know for the context bit of the exam. Whilst it is worth looking at Beowulf, Old English, 1066 and Middle English, remember that the texts in the exam tend to come from 1500s earliest, so perhaps start looking in more detail at Shakespeare, then American, Plain and Modern.

1066andallthat

Here's a timeline from the page with the main phases of English. Click on the image to enlarge. Start with Germanic tribes invade.

How to Approach the Language Diversity Question

Question 1a

Englang a2 exam q1a

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Question 1b

Tackling question 1b

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Language Change Quiz

Have a go at this multiple choice quiz. Then check your answers ont he last page.

Langchananswers

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Technical Terms Test

Try to answer the following questions on linguistic terms. Then check your answers by scrolling down.

1) A verb used to help the main verb. E.g. Do you believe?

2) Using more words than is strictly necessary.

3) A key grammatical unit. Formed when a noun is linked to a verb.

4) The words ‘a’, ‘an’, ‘the’.

5) Moving a word to the front of a sentence to give it prominence.

6) Words or phrases that are part of conversational language, often figurative
and often difficult for non-native speaker.

7) A command verb.

8) The way words change their form to show, for example, that they are singular or plural.

9) When a word, usually noun or verb is changed by the addition of another word or phrase.

10) The study of spelling.

11) All that is written about the subject of a sentence. E.g. He played forty times for England.

12) The basic information about a text. E.g. Author, when it was written, genre etc.


13) The style of a text, which is determined by the context. E.g. The style of the Times is different to the Sun. It can be informal or scientific. Etc.

14) The core part of a word to which prefixes and suffixes are added.

15) The history of words.

16) The study of how words combine to form phrases, clauses and sentences.

17) A stem, together with any affixes that depend on it and possibly other stems (as part of a compound stem), which can be pronounced by itself in normal use of a language, e.g. in response to a question.

18) Some words in a sentence have little or no meaning of their own but instead refer to other words in the same or other sentences.

19) A ____ is a sequence of paragraphs that represents an extended unit of speech. (From Latin word for ‘to weave’)

20) –noun
1. the omission of a vowel, consonant, or syllable in pronunciation.
2. (in verse) the omission of a vowel at the end of one word when the next word begins with a vowel, as th'orient.





The Answers:


1) A verb used to help the main verb. E.g. Do you believe? auxiliary

2) Using more words that is strictly necessary. circumlocution

3) A key grammatical unit. Formed when a noun is linked to a verb. clause

4) The words ‘a’, ‘an’, ‘the’. article

5) Moving a word to the front of a sentence to give it prominence. foregrounding

6) Words or phrases that are part of conversational language, often figurative
and often difficult for non-native speaker. idioms

7) A command verb. imperative

8) The way words change their form to show, for example, that they are singular or plural. inflection

9) When a word, usually noun or verb is changed by the addition of another word or phrase. modification

10) The study of spelling. orthography

11) All that is written about the subject of a sentence. E.g. He played forty times for England. predicate

12) The basic information about a text. E.g. Author, when it was written, genre etc. provenance

13) The style of a text, which is determined by the context. E.g. The style of the Times is different to the Sun. It can be informal or scientific. Etc. register

14) The core part of a word to which prefixes and suffixes are added. stem

15) The history of words. etymology

16) The study of how words combine to form phrases, clauses and sentences. syntax

17) A stem, together with any affixes that depend on it and possibly other stems (as part of a compound stem), which can be pronounced by itself in normal use of a language, e.g. in response to a question. word

18) Some words in a sentence have little or no meaning of their own but instead refer to other words in the same or other sentences. Anaphoric reference

19) A sequence of paragraphs that represents an extended unit of speech. (From Latin word for ‘to weave’) text

20) –noun
1. the omission of a vowel, consonant, or syllable in pronunciation.
2. (in verse) the omission of a vowel at the end of one word when the next word begins with a vowel, as th'orient. elision