1. Introduction to ELLA3 Revision Guide
2. ELLA3 Answering the Comparative Analysis Question
3. ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Question
4. ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Exemplar Response
5. ELLA3 Answering the Adaptation Question
6. ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar Cupcakes Response
7. ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar House Somewhere Response
8. ELLA3 Adaptation Checklist

This pack is to be used in conjunction with the ELLA3 paper set in Jan 2013 (the first with the new set sections in Section B), currently available on eAQA under ‘secure key materials’. It will...

1. Introduction to ELLA3 Revision Guide
2. ELLA3 Answering the Comparative Analysis Question
3. ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Question
4. ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Exemplar Response
5. ELLA3 Answering the Adaptation Question
6. ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar Cupcakes Response
7. ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar House Somewhere Response
8. ELLA3 Adaptation Checklist

Checklist: How Effective is Your Adaptation?

You can use this to make sure you’ve covered the basics, or to help a partner check their work. If you can internalise these key elements of adaptation so...

1. Introduction to ELLA3 Revision Guide
2. ELLA3 Answering the Comparative Analysis Question
3. ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Question
4. ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Exemplar Response
5. ELLA3 Answering the Adaptation Question
6. ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar Cupcakes Response
7. ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar House Somewhere Response
8. ELLA3 Adaptation Checklist

ELLA3 Adaptation of Texts for an Audience (A House Somewhere) Sample Answer (Jan 2013)

This answer does a good job of using the source material and transforming it for a contemporary audience, but it...

1. Introduction to ELLA3 Revision Guide
2. ELLA3 Answering the Comparative Analysis Question
3. ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Question
4. ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Exemplar Response
5. ELLA3 Answering the Adaptation Question
6. ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar Cupcakes Response
7. ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar House Somewhere Response
8. ELLA3 Adaptation Checklist

ELLA3 Adaptation of Texts for an Audience (Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs) Sample Answer (Jan 2013)

This answer does a good job of using the source material and transforming it for a contemporary...

1. Introduction to ELLA3 Revision Guide
2. ELLA3 Answering the Comparative Analysis Question
3. ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Question
4. ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Exemplar Response
5. ELLA3 Answering the Adaptation Question
6. ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar Cupcakes Response
7. ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar House Somewhere Response
8. ELLA3 Adaptation Checklist

How to complete the ELLA3 Adaptation of ‘Texts for an Audience’ Tasks

You are asked to complete two separate but related tasks in this part of the exam:

• Adapt a given text for a new audience,...

1. Introduction to ELLA3 Revision Guide
2. ELLA3 Answering the Comparative Analysis Question
3. ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Question
4. ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Exemplar Response
5. ELLA3 Answering the Adaptation Question
6. ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar Cupcakes Response
7. ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar House Somewhere Response
8. ELLA3 Adaptation Checklist

ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Exemplar (Jan 2013)

All three of these texts concern aspects of naming, but they approach their topic in very different ways. Texts A and C are very personal, referring to...

1. Introduction to ELLA3 Revision Guide
2. ELLA3 Answering the Comparative Analysis Question
3. ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Question
4. ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Exemplar Response
5. ELLA3 Answering the Adaptation Question
6. ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar Cupcakes Response
7. ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar House Somewhere Response
8. ELLA3 Adaptation Checklist

ELLA3 Analysis Question (Jan 2013)

Most of the following paragraphs have some merit. Which would you simply abandon as not very productive points? Which could you improve to develop into good points?...[ read full article ] »

1. Introduction to ELLA3 Revision Guide
2. ELLA3 Answering the Comparative Analysis Question
3. ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Question
4. ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Exemplar Response
5. ELLA3 Answering the Adaptation Question
6. ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar Cupcakes Response
7. ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar House Somewhere Response
8. ELLA3 Adaptation Checklist

Answering the ELLA3 Analytical Comparison Question (with reference to Jan 2013’s Question)

In this task, you are expected (unsurprisingly) to analyse and compare – just as in the coursework unit....

Associated Resources

• Transcripts Pack
• Guide to Conversation Analysis.doc

This guide is intended to support teachers preparing students for tasks involving the analysis of transcribed conversation at AS and A2 level, although teachers of the new GCSE unit on Spoken Language may also find some helpful information here, especially in the “Key Issues” section.  Just don’t get carried away with the technical terms or theories at this level!

The advice and information given here is relevant to many specifications, both Language courses and...

Associated Resources

• A Guide to Conversational Analysis

Introduction

This collection of transcripts has been produced with A Level Language and combined Language and Literature teaching in mind, although some of the transcripts may also be suitable for use with the new Spoken Language GCSE unit.

• Never Mind The Buzzcocks.doc
• David Beckham and Jonathan Ross.doc
• Paxman and Cooper on Taxes.doc
• Husband and Wife - Nan and her Fruit Pies.doc
• Student and Teacher.doc
• Jeremy Kyle.doc
• Hugh F-W - Beer Batter.doc
• Loose Women.doc
• QI Daniel Radcliffe.doc...[ read full article ] »
  

Click on the link below to download the resource.

Lang Lit A2 Possible Coursework Titles 2011-12.doc

Click on the link below to download the resource.

Lang Lit A2 New Coursework Scheme 2011-12.doc

Click on the link below to download the resource.

Lang Lit AS or A2 Frameworks Self-Assessment Grid.doc

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ELLA3 Cupcakes Writing Spoken Texts.doc

Language Investigations

This is a guide to preparing students for the various ‘Investigations in English Language’ units that form part of many A Level English Language courses. It has been written to cover the A2 coursework requirements for the following examination boards:

• The basic requirements for the investigation are broadly similar across all boards but where needed, specific advice for a particular exam board’s specification is shown and clearly identified.

Assessment Focus (Assessment...

Click on the link below to download a Word version of Beth Kemp’s Scheme of Work for AQA A2 Level Lang Lit Spec A 2010.

AQA A2 Lang Lit Scheme of Work.doc

This guide is for the examination unit of A2 English Language and Literature AQA A, ‘Comparative Analysis and Text Adaptation’.

This demanding 2½ hours examination develops students’ analytical and productive skills acquired in the AS year.

It requires students to compare texts of different types, as well as to recast a given extract into a different set type of text and provide a commentary that explains their linguistic choices.

These tasks are assessed using all four Assessment Objectives:

Structuring the Teaching

The...