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A 9 lesson unit comprising of a 66 slide PowerPoint and 9 different worksheets (8 include a transcript for analysis) exploring the topic of spoken language analysis and a summary terminology and theory sheet. This unit can be used to teach A Level English Language or A Level Language and Literature and is not linked to any particular exam board.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and terminology listed below, a worksheet containing a transcript (or revision cards for lesson 9), and a homework task. The following theories and terminology are covered:
Discourse – Michel Foucault (1969)
Narrative Categories – William Labov (1972)
Turn taking; adjacency pairs; backchanneling
IRF Model – Sinclair and Coulthard (1975)
Charles Goodwin – Storytelling Structure (1984)
Discourse markers; tag questions; skip connectors; overlap
Speech Acts – J.R. Searle (1969)
Transactional talk; phatic talk; monitoring features
Cooperative Principle and Gricean Maxims – Paul Grice (1975)
Contraction; elision; ellipsis; interruption
Register and Context – Michael Halliday (1985)
Situational Factors Affecting Language Use – David Crystal (1995)
Assimilation; false start; filler; intonation; non-fluency features; paralinguistic features; prosodic features
Face-work - Erving Goffman (1967)
Politeness Theory - Brown and Levinson (1987)
Accommodation; colloquialisms; comment clauses; deixis; hedging -
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
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Two detailed lessons exploring Robert Browning’s ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring Edward Thomas’ ‘Adlestrop’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
This bundle comprises fifteen poetry PowerPoints based on the poems from the Edexcel Time and Place cluster: London; Composed Upon Westminster Bridge; To Autumn; I started Early, Took my Dog; Adlestrop; Where the Picnic Was; Home Thoughts from Abroad; Stewart Island; Postcard from a Travel Snob; First Flight; Hurricane Hits England; Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan; Nothing’s Changed; In Romney Marsh; and Absence.
Each PowerPoint contains the following:
A starter discussion activity
Contextual information
Form and structural information
Detailed annotated questions which incorporate a challenging range of poetic terminology
Consolidation questions
An optional additional lesson guiding students through an exemplar examination question
These lessons will challenge and engage your students, including the most able.
A lesson plan is included for every poem, which includes differentiation suggestions.
Two detailed lessons exploring Thomas Hardy’s ‘Where the Picnic was’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring William Wordsworth’s ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
A 10 lesson unit comprising of a 74 slide PowerPoint and 10 different worksheets (8 include a transcript for analysis) exploring the topic of child language acquisition (speech) and a summary terminology and theory sheet. This unit can be used for any exam board.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and terminology listed below, a worksheet containing a transcript (or revision cards for lesson 10), and a homework task. The following theories and terminology are covered:
Pre-verbal stages of CLA including reduplicated, variegated and jargon babbling
Lexical and grammatical stages of CLA
Nelson – Categories of first words (1973)
Reduplication/ diminuitives/ addition/ substitution/ assimilation/ deletion/ consonant cluster reduction
Gestalt expressions/ content and function words
Noun bias –Bloom (2001)
Language Acquisition Device (LAD) and Universal Grammar –Chomsky (1965)
Virtuous errors/overextension/Underextension
‘Fis’ Phenomenon –Berko and Brown (1960)
The Wug Test –Berko Gleason (1958)
Pivot Schema –Braine (1973)
Semantic Development –Brown (1973)
The Acquisition of the System of Negation in Children’s Speech and Stages of Pronoun Acquisition –Bellugi (1967)
Formation of questions –Brown (1968)
Behaviourism –Skinner (1957)
Social Learning Theory –Bandura (1977)
A usage-based approach to learning language –Ibbotson (2009)
Stages of Cognitive Development –Piaget (1936)
Learning as a social process –Vygotsky (1930)
Criticisms of Piaget’s Theory – Repacholi and Gopnik (1997) and Lewis and Ramsay (2004)
Social Interactionism and LASS – Bruner (1983)
Functions of Children’s Language – Halliday (1975)
Functions of Children’s Language – Dore (1975)
How a lack of social interactionism affects language learning – Pinker (1994) and Kuhl (2010)
Child Directed Speech and its features
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
