Monthly Archives: February 2007

Y12 Combined – Past paper question (Ross & Brosnan interview)

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Ant Heald

Click here for your next exam practice piece. Remember you only have about 45 minutes for this in the exam. Obviously, for better or worse, you have to use old-fashioned pen and paper in the exam, but if you want … Continue reading →

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IMPORTANT: Warning about plagiarism

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Mr Heald

After a long evening’s marking & preparation, it is with a rather heavy heart that I feel the need to make this posting. Early in the course I warned about the seriousness of plagiarism (using the words or ideas of … Continue reading →

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Gulliver’s Travels

Posted on February 23, 2007 by Mr Heald

I have added a few more links to the Pre-1914 prose page, including one to an excellent short online course. I very strongly recommend you all in year 11 to work your way through this. Depending on your speed of … Continue reading →

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Y12 Combined group, as promised, that transcript is here:

Posted on February 23, 2007 by Ant Heald

courtroom-transcript.pdf

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Film Language

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Mr Heald

If you want to find out more about how different aspects of film language are typically used by directors to create different meanings & effects, there is an excellent website here with stills and video clips to illustrate the techniques, … Continue reading →

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Have M&S got fewer standards than they used to?

Posted on February 19, 2007 by Ant Heald

I went to Chester at the weekend and saw this remarkable sight: What’s going on there then? What’s the situation in Doncaster M&S? What about the supermarkets/shops that you use or work in? There’s plenty of online discussions of this … Continue reading →

Posted in Attitudes to Language, ENB2 - Language and Occupation, ENB6 - Language Change, Grammar | 4 Comments

Gender wars

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Ant Heald

Any thoughts on this recent (American) article? It’s fairly anecdotal rather than research based, but I think it’s quite interesting in the light of today’s discussion in Y12 Language class.

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Inside-Out

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Mr Heald

If anyone wants to chuck in any comments on this one, here’s the place to do it.

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Girl Chewing Gum

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Mr Heald

I was asked by someone earlier to put a couple of extra blog entries in to separate discussion of the films. The comments sections below are getting a bit unwieldy, so that’s maybe not a bad idea. There are one … Continue reading →

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Back in business: the language of speech / language and gender

Posted on February 6, 2007 by Ant Heald

I’m up and running again here, with the prospect of half-term break allowing me just to keep my nose above water, snorkel like. I will be collating some resources on the language of speech, discourse analysis etc which will be … Continue reading →

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