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...

• Throughout this guide, a past exam-style question based on the play Macbeth has been used to illustrate ideas, but these have been written in a way that will allow you easily to transfer the idea to any other exam text, whether another ‘Gothic’ text or Pastoral.

• To achieve a high grade in your exam answer, one major precondition exists:
  • That you know your text well.

If that condition has been met, through classroom and personal study along with research via the Internet or other study guides, then this guide should help you achieve the...

Overview

• Accent & Dialect starters for A Level English Language lessons
• Key Sociolinguistic Studies into Variation
• Key Linguistic Concepts

Starters for A Level English Language: Accent and Dialect

A simple UK Geography test can be a fun starter for a lesson featuring particular UK varieties. It’s worth laminating a half class set of A3 outlines of the British Isles for this. Students work in pairs and either are given place names on cards to place appropriately (possibly with Blu-tak as well, so work can be held up to show the class) or a...

Watch the video and analyse the lyrics. What does this song say about our culture in Britain today?

Why is the songwriter angry?

Roots by Show of Hands

Now it’s been 25 years or more
I’ve roamed this land from shore to shore
From Tyne to Teign, or Severn to Thames
From moor to vale, from peak to fen

Played in cafes, pubs and bars
I’ve stood in the street with my own guitar
But I’d be richer than all the rest
If I had a pound for each request

For ‘Duelling Banjos’, ‘American Pie’
It’s enough to make you cry
‘Rule Britannia’, or ‘Swing...

click here to see how extracts of this speech can be analysed

Transcript of President Bush’s address to a joint session of Congress on Thursday night, September 20, 2001.

Mr. Speaker, Mr. President Pro Tempore, members of Congress, and fellow Americans, in the normal course of events, presidents come to this chamber to report on the state of the union. Tonight, no such report is needed; it has already been delivered by the American people.

We have seen it in the courage of passengers who rushed terrorists to save others on the ground....

George Bush…

click here to view the transcript of President Bush’s speech

A. Bush heavily relies on emotive, or loaded lexis throughout his speech to Congress. This is clearly linked to the notion of “antithesis” – he wants and “us” and “them” situation with the enemy clearly defined.

The following terms are used to describe the US and her allies:

Civilians, freedom, democracy, women and children, unity, join together, friends, decisive, liberation, success, safeguard, justice, co-ordinate, free world, civilised world,...