Category Archives: AS Lang

BBC News – The rules of speech crime

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Ant Heald

via news.bbc.co.uk This article from the BBC News Magazine website highlights the issue of ‘political correctness’ (itself seen as a an increasingly pejorative term, especially in conjunction with its common collocation, ‘gone mad’). This is an important concept for both … Continue reading →

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Original / Creative Writing

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Ant Heald

If you’re looking for some inspiration for original writing, and want to see how the experts do it, this section of the Guardian website has a really interesting variety of writing in a range of styles, both poetry and prose. … Continue reading →

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ENGB1 Grouping Task

Posted on November 30, 2008 by Ant Heald

It’s another stupidly busy weekend (punctuated by the staff Christmas ‘do’ on Friday – a bit early for Christmas, but there you are) and I didn’t get round to putting anything on Frog as I’d said I hoped to for … Continue reading →

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Cracking Grammar

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Ant Heald

It became clear in Friday’s Y12 Lang lesson that: having to do exercises on language concepts really helped to clarify your knowledge and understanding few of you had taken advantage of the resources I keep mentioning that will help you … Continue reading →

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