jennywebb | Thursday September 01, 2022
Categories: Archived Resources, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level, AQA A Level Pre-2015 Resources, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA4, AQA A Level English Language & Literature B, ELLB4, AQA A Level English Literature B, LITB3, EDEXCEL A Level, Edexcel A Level Pre-2015 Resources, EDEXCEL A Level English Language & Literature, 6EL02, Hot Entries, Poetry, Chaucer, Writing, Literary Analysis
Chaucer can be a daunting prospect for many 17-year-olds. His medieval 14th Century historical, cultural, religious and literary context is so far removed from anything else they have come across before; and the likelihood is that they will never have come across even his name in their earlier school career. By the time they hit A Level, Shakespeare is familiar territory, having been studied at GCSE and KS3 in most schools, but Chaucer remains a dark, mysterious figure, further back in the…
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Steve Campsall | Monday November 11, 2019
Categories: Archived Resources, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level, AQA A Level Pre-2015 Resources, AQA A Level English Language A, AQA A Level English Language B, ENGB1, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, AQA A Level English Language & Literature B, EDEXCEL A Level, Edexcel A Level Pre-2015 Resources, EDEXCEL A Level English Language & Literature, 6EL01, EDEXCEL A Level English Language, 6EN01, 6EN03, OCR A Level, OCR A Level Pre-2015 Resources, OCR A Level English Language & Literature, F672, F674, OCR A Level English Language, F652, WJEC A Level, WJEC A Level Pre-2015 Resources, WJEC A Level English Language & Literature, LL4, WJEC A Level English Language, LG1, LG4, Hot Entries, Writing, Lexical Analysis, Linguistic Analysis, Textual Analysis
click on image to enlarge This guide is intended to help you learn or revise for your English Language A level course. In writing it, I’ve tried to tackle the analysis of language and texts in a particularly straightforward way in the hope that it will appeal especially to you if you are feeling a bit ‘lost’ by this often complex subject, one that can so very easily, for many students, seem more different from English at GCSE than they ever imagined, and, well, none-too-easy.…
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Steph Atkinson | Monday November 11, 2019
Categories: Archived Resources, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level, AQA A Level Pre-2015 Resources, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA2, ELLA4, AQA A Level English Language & Literature B, ELLB2, ELLB4, EDEXCEL A Level, Edexcel A Level Pre-2015 Resources, EDEXCEL A Level English Language & Literature, 6EL02, 6EL04, OCR A Level, OCR A Level Pre-2015 Resources, OCR A Level English Language & Literature, F671, WJEC A Level, WJEC A Level Pre-2015 Resources, WJEC A Level English Language & Literature, WJEC A Level English Literature, LT2, Prose, Analysing Prose, Persuasion, Writing, Essays, Literary Analysis, Linguistic Analysis, Prose Analysis
click on image to enlarge Persuasion is a fascinating and accessible novel with rather less typical Austen aspects, such as love lost and rediscovered, that provide students with an interesting and fascinating read; it provides also, if they are more widely read, an interesting counterpoint to her other, perhaps more famous, works. A feature of this teaching guide is to provide plenty of exemplification, through the close textual analysis of Persuasion, looking at aspects of language, form and…
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Paul Merrell | Monday November 11, 2019
Categories: Archived Resources, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level, AQA A Level Pre-2015 Resources, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA1, AQA A Level English Literature A, AQA A Level English Literature B, LITB1, EDEXCEL A Level, Edexcel A Level Generic Skills, Edexcel A Level Skills Resources, EDEXCEL A Level English Literature, 6ET01, Edexcel A Level Pre-2015 Resources, EDEXCEL A Level English Language & Literature, 6EL03, OCR A Level, OCR A Level Pre-2015 Resources, OCR A Level English Literature, F661, WJEC A Level, WJEC A Level Pre-2015 Resources, WJEC A Level English Literature, LT1, Hot Entries, Poetry, Eliot, The Waste Land
click on image to enlarge I love teaching this text; in fact, I see it as one of the most versatile (and important) things that I deliver across all of my KS5 classes – be it A Level, Pre-U or on the IB. I know Eliot’s poetry appears in various forms across a wide range of specifications and courses, but I more often than not teach this poem as either a comparative coursework text or, more generally, as key AO4 information for any Modernist writer. I don’t know how, for…
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Paul Merrell | Tuesday April 01, 2014
Categories: Drama, The Rivals, Hot Entries, Poetry, Chaucer, The Wife of Bath’s Tale, The Wife of Bath’s Prologue, Writing, Comparing & Contrasting, Drama Analysis, Poetry Analysis, EDEXCEL A Level English Literature, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, AQA A Level English Language & Literature B, AQA A Level English Literature A, AQA A Level English Literature B, EDEXCEL A Level English Language & Literature, OCR A Level English Literature, F663, WJEC A Level English Language & Literature, WJEC A Level English Literature, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level, EDEXCEL A Level, OCR A Level, WJEC A Level
click on image to enlarge The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale with Comparative Notes for Sheridan’s The Rivals Introduction This guide covers Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath, both the Prologue and Tale, and focuses of the A2 OCR unit F663, Section B – but the guide should prove very useful to anyone teaching these Chaucer texts for any other exam board. The OCR unit itself requires a comparison with another text, and in this guide, that text is Sheridan’s The Rivals – thus, teachers…
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Beth Kemp | Tuesday May 21, 2013
Categories: Drama, Analysing Drama, Hot Entries, Poetry, Prose, Analysing Prose, Writing, Analytical Writing, Comparative Analysis, Drama Analysis, Literary Analysis, Linguistic Analysis, Non-Fiction Analysis, Poetry Analysis, Prose Analysis, Speech Analysis, Transformative or Editorial Writing, Transcribed Conversations, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA3, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level
Guide Navigation Introduction to ELLA3 Revision Guide ELLA3 Answering the Comparative Analysis Question ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Question ELLA3 Comparative Analysis Exemplar Response ELLA3 Answering the Adaptation Question ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar Cupcakes Response ELLA3 Adaptation Exemplar House Somewhere Response 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…
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Beth Kemp | Monday March 11, 2013
Categories: Starters & Teaching Ideas, Teaching Ideas & Skills Development, KS5 English Starters, Writing, Linguistic Analysis, Speech Analysis, Child Language Acquisition, An Introduction to Child Language Acquisition, CLA Exam Revision, Gender, Gender Resources, Spoken English, AQA A Level English Language A, ENGA1, ENGA2, ENGA3, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA2, AQA A Level English Language & Literature B, ELLB1, ELLB3, EDEXCEL A Level English Language & Literature, 6EL01, 6EL03, EDEXCEL A Level English Language, 6EN01, 6EN03, 6EN04, OCR A Level English Language & Literature, OCR A Level English Language, F651, F653, WJEC A Level English Language, LG2, LG3, LG4, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level, EDEXCEL A Level, OCR A Level, WJEC A Level
Guide Navigation A Level English Language Starters: Frameworks & Analysis A Level English Language Starters: Accent & Dialect A Level English Language Starters: Language & Gender A Level English Language Starters: Language Change A Level English Language Starters: Mode & Technology A Level English Language Starters: Child Language Acquisition A Level English Language Starters: Language & Power This collection of suggestions includes ice-breaker or ‘getting to know you’…
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Sarah Knightley | Wednesday November 07, 2012
Categories: KS4, OCR GCSE, WJEC Eduqas GCSE, Hot Entries, Prose, Frankenstein, Writing, Prose Analysis, EDEXCEL A Level English Literature, OCR GCSE English Literature, WJEC GCSE English Literature, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, AQA A Level English Language & Literature B, AQA A Level English Literature A, AQA A Level English Literature B, EDEXCEL A Level English Language & Literature, OCR A Level English Language & Literature, OCR A Level English Literature, F661, F662, WJEC A Level English Language & Literature, WJEC A Level English Literature, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level, EDEXCEL A Level, OCR A Level, WJEC A Level
Associated Resources
1. Shelley - Frankenstein Walton’s Letters 1-4.pptx
2. Shelley - Frankenstein Allusions and Victor Ch 1-4.pptx
3. Shelley - Frankenstein The Birth of the Creature Ch 5-8.pptx
4. Shelley - Frankenstein Families Ch 15 Focus.pptx
5. Shelley - Frankenstein The Trial Ch 16-17.pptx
6. Shelley - Frankenstein Female Characters Ch18-20.pptx
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Steph Atkinson | Tuesday April 24, 2012
Categories: Hot Entries, Prose, Jane Eyre, Writing, Analytical Writing, Prose Analysis, EDEXCEL A Level English Literature, 6ET01, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA1, AQA A Level English Literature A, LITA2, OCR A Level English Literature, F661, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level, EDEXCEL A Level, OCR A Level
Binary Opposition The way a text creates and shapes its reader’s interpretation to develop both meaning and feeling can be fruitfully and subtly analysed by means of binary opposition. Despite its apparent complexity, this method can easily be understood by students of varying levels and ability from GCSE upwards. It can allow them to create subtle analyses of texts of the kind that can fulfil the requirements of the highest grade bands. The theory works from the premise that many words and…
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Beth Kemp | Wednesday April 20, 2011
Categories: Hot Entries, Writing, Comparative Analysis, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA4, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level
ELLA4 A2 Student Coursework Booklet.doc
This booklet is intended to have the coursework mark scheme as the final pages of the booklet. For copyright reasons this has not been included. You will need to download the spec and add these pages to complete it. This should be easy as our ELLA4 A2 Student Coursework Booklet is an editable .doc file.
Link to AQA website See pages 10 and 11.
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Beth Kemp | Tuesday March 29, 2011
Categories: Hot Entries, Poetry, Duffy, Mean Time, AQA A Level, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA4
Associated Resources A Guide to Teaching Plath’s Ariel for ELLA4 A Guide to Teaching Larkin’s Whitsun Weddings for ELLA4 Lang Lit A2 New Coursework Scheme 2011-12.doc Lang Lit A2 Possible Coursework Titles 2011-12.doc This guide is to support the teaching of Duffy’s Mean Time for ELLA4, together with Plath’s Ariel and Larkin’s Whitsun Weddings. The unit is called “Comparative Analysis through Independent Study? and is therefore built on an expectation that students will be doing some…
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Beth Kemp | Saturday March 12, 2011
Categories: Hot Entries, Poetry, Larkin, Whitsun Weddings, AQA A Level, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA4
Associated Resources A Guide to Teaching Plath’s Ariel for ELLA4 A Guide to Teaching Duffy’s Mean Time for ELLA4 Lang Lit A2 New Coursework Scheme 2011-12.doc Lang Lit A2 Possible Coursework Titles 2011-12.doc This guide supports teachers using Larkin’s Whitsun Weddings together with Plath’s Ariel and Duffy’s Mean Time for ELLA4, following the teaching scheme and suggested coursework titles available in this topic on Edusites. This unit, called “Comparative Analysis through…
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Beth Kemp | Sunday January 30, 2011
Categories: Hot Entries, Language and Linguistic Analysis, Conversational Analysis, A Guide to Conversational Analysis, Transcribed Conversations, Transcripts Pack, AQA A Level English Language A, ENGA1, ENGA4, AQA A Level English Language B, ENGB1, ENGB4, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA2, ELLA3, AQA A Level English Language & Literature B, ELLB3, EDEXCEL A Level English Language & Literature, 6EL01, 6EL03, EDEXCEL A Level English Language, 6EN01, 6EN03, 6EN04, OCR A Level English Language & Literature, F671, F672, F673, OCR A Level English Language, F651, F653, WJEC A Level English Language & Literature, LL1, LL3, LL4, WJEC A Level English Language, LG1, LG2, LG3, LG4, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level, EDEXCEL A Level, OCR A Level, WJEC A Level
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…
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Beth Kemp | Sunday January 30, 2011
Categories: Hot Entries, AQA A Level, EDEXCEL A Level, OCR A Level, WJEC A Level, Transcribed Conversations, Transcripts Pack, AQA A Level English Language A, ENGA1, ENGA4, AQA A Level English Language B, ENGB1, ENGB4, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA2, ELLA3, AQA A Level English Language & Literature B, ELLB3, EDEXCEL A Level English Language & Literature, 6EL01, 6EL03, EDEXCEL A Level English Language, 6EN01, 6EN03, 6EN04, OCR A Level English Language & Literature, F671, F672, F673, OCR A Level English Language, F651, F653, WJEC A Level English Language & Literature, LL1, LL3, LL4, WJEC A Level English Language, LG1, LG2, LG3, LG4
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…
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Beth Kemp | Thursday January 27, 2011
Categories: Hot Entries, Poetry, Plath, Ariel, AQA A Level, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA4
Associated Resources A Guide to Teaching Larkin’s Whitsun Weddings for ELLA4 A Guide to Teaching Duffy’s Mean Time for ELLA4 Lang Lit A2 New Coursework Scheme 2011-12.doc Lang Lit A2 Possible Coursework Titles 2011-12.doc This guide is to support the teaching of Plath’s Ariel, together with Duffy’s Mean Time and Larkin’s Whitsun Weddings for ELLA4. The unit title is “Comparative Analysis through Independent Study?, so students are expected to do some of the work for themselves. Thus,…
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Beth Kemp | Wednesday January 12, 2011
Categories: AQA A Level, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA1, ELLA2, ELLA3, ELLA4
Click on the link below to download the resource.
Lang Lit AS or A2 Frameworks Self-Assessment Grid.doc
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Beth Kemp | Wednesday January 12, 2011
Categories: AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA3, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level
Remember that scripted speech is written to sound ‘genuine’ and not too scripted. Therefore it:May be more standard than spontaneous speech, but won’t be excessively formal Is likely to use some kind of address to the audience – perhaps direct (second person pronouns: you/your) or inclusive (first person plural pronouns: we/us/our) Will use contractions Will avoid over-long and complicated sentences, although this does not mean it will only use simple sentences. Remember also that, like…
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Dan Clayton | Monday December 13, 2010
Categories: Hot Entries, AQA A Level, EDEXCEL A Level, OCR A Level, WJEC A Level, AQA A Level English Language A, AQA A Level English Language B, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, AQA A Level English Language & Literature B, EDEXCEL A Level English Language & Literature, EDEXCEL A Level English Language, OCR A Level English Language & Literature, OCR A Level English Language, WJEC A Level English Language & Literature, WJEC A Level English Language
Beth Kemp | Wednesday November 17, 2010
Categories: Hot Entries, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA4, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level
Related Resources Assessment of Presentations in Lang A2.doc Assessment Objectives for English Language A2 AQA A.doc Assessment of Presentations in Lang A2.doc ELLA4 Sample Paras AfL Activity.doc Eng Lang A2 The Grammatical Framework and Textual Analysis.doc Language A2 - Improving Your Investigation.doc AQA A2 Lang A Scheme of Work.doc Step One: Choose Your Title To do this, you need to know which theme you want to do, or what your focus is. To help your decision, use any suggested themes or…
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Beth Kemp | Tuesday November 16, 2010
Categories: AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA3, ELLA4, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level
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
AQA A A2 Lang Lit New Coursework Scheme
Lang Lit A2 New Coursework Scheme 2011-12.doc
AQA A A2 Lang Lit Possible Coursework Titles
Lang Lit A2 Possible Coursework Titles 2011-12.doc
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Beth Kemp | Saturday October 30, 2010
Categories: Hot Entries, AQA A Level, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA4
This guide is for the coursework unit of A2 English Language and Literature AQA A, Comparative Analysis through Independent Study. This unit requires students to study at least one poetry text and to discuss a theme, concept or technique across two texts, in a comparative essay that focuses on specific passages of texts, i.e. named poems, and perhaps specified passages of a prose or drama text. Rationale The spirit of the unit is that students will work independently on their chosen focus,…
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Beth Kemp | Saturday October 30, 2010
Categories: Hot Entries, AQA A Level, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA2
Introduction to the unit This guide is for the second exam unit of English Language and Literature AQA A: Analysing Speech and its Representation. The unit requires students to study spoken language through transcripts of spontaneous speech, prepared speeches and non-literary representations of speech, such as magazine interviews. Students also study one from a list of eight prose and drama texts for this closed book exam. Assessment Section A of this unit is assessed using AO2 (15 marks) and…
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Beth Kemp | Saturday October 30, 2010
Categories: Hot Entries, AQA A Level, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA1
This guide is for the first unit of AS English Language and Literature AQA A, Integrated Analysis and Text Production. This unit requires students to study two (from a choice of ten) prose and drama texts, and to produce one response to each in the exam: one analytical and one productive. It is an open book exam, in which students are allowed to take un-annotated texts into the exam room, and they may choose from which text they produce each kind of response. Assessment ‘A’…
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Beth Kemp | Monday September 06, 2010
Categories: Hot Entries, AQA A Level, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA3
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…
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