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Explorers or…. Monday, 13 February 2012. AOs for Language papers. AO2 Reading All students will be required to demonstrate an ability to: (i) read and understand texts with insight and engagement (ii) develop and sustain interpretations of writers’ ideas and perspectives
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Explorers or… Monday, 13 February 2012 Jonathan Peel SGS 2012
AOs for Language papers • AO2 Reading • All students will be required to demonstrate an ability to: • (i) read and understand texts with insight and engagement • (ii) develop and sustain interpretations of writers’ ideas and perspectives • (iii) understand and make some evaluation of how writers use linguistic and • structural devices to achieve their effects. • AO3 Writing • All students will be required to demonstrate an ability to: • (i) communicate clearly and appropriately, using and adapting forms for different • readers and purposes • (ii) organise ideas into sentences, paragraphs and whole texts using a variety of • linguistic and structural features • (iii) use a range of sentence structures effectively, with accurate punctuation and • spelling. • (Edexcel language specification, p20) Jonathan Peel SGS 2012
Before we start: • Share the words you do not understand with a neighbour. • Ensure you all understand every word in the article. Jonathan Peel SGS 2012
Summary skills • In the Autumn you learned to summarise. • Using only facts, list the key features of this article for a summary. • Boys messing about..docx My version of a 150 word summary. How many of these points did you get? • Which AOs have you just hit? Jonathan Peel SGS 2012
CONNOTATION • Look at the headline: Which words influence the reader into thinking that this is not a story of brave human endeavour? • WHY? • What do these words CONNOTE? Jonathan Peel SGS 2012
NEGATIVE CONNOTATION • The passage has many similar examples of language chosen for negative connotation. • In your groups you will be allocated a few paragraphs to mine for information. • Make a table – 15 minutes maximum. Jonathan Peel SGS 2012
CAROUSEL • 1 from each group will now move and feedback findings to a second group. You will have 5 minutes • And another… • HWK: ensure you have got through the whole passage and listed the emotive words… Jonathan Peel SGS 2012
Fact and Opinion • How do you tell the difference? What words (often verbs) do you notice in the passage that connote opinion? • What of these: • “ Justin Bieber is a talentless dwarf” • “ I think Justin Bieber is a talentless dwarf” • Always look for opinion presented as fact. Jonathan Peel SGS 2012
Look again at the passage • Look at “your” paragraphs for fact or opinion and feedback your response. • Label the paragraphs. Jonathan Peel SGS 2012
To sum up… • What sort of language commonly presents opinion in a passage like this? • “How is language used to influence the reader in a media passage?” • Which AOs do you use to write an answer to this question? Jonathan Peel SGS 2012