Session 19 Learning Objectives: - understand the difference between implicit and explicit meanings; - recall and practise how to synthesise and evaluate two texts to answer P2 Q4

What do you want to achieve today?

Poverty Eight men own the same wealth as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity, according to a new report published by Oxfam [yesterday]

SHEDSS – Health and Safety

Quick Quiz 1) Formality 2) Tone 3) Bathos 4) Explicit 5) Implicit 6) Evaluate 7) Viewpoint 8) Perspective

Inference To reach an opinion from what someone implies, rather than from an explicit statement. The reader infers from the simile ‘like dirt from a dump truck’ that the writer is suggesting that in the world of the casinos money is not only dirty but as ‘common as muck’.

‘London and the London Poor’; ‘Maria’ Evaluate how the two writers use language to convey their attitudes to poverty.

Evaluate = make a judgement Paper 2 Q4 requires you to analyse language (and structure, if appropriate) using QuAL and to evaluate the effectiveness of the writer’s use of language to convey their viewpoint.

Helpful phrases for evaluation: What does the writer do? How successfully? The writer suggests effectively The author Implies successfully The text describes clearly The extract emphasises powerfully

Don’t forget to evaluate the impact on the reader Don’t forget to evaluate the impact on the reader! The reader feels… realises… recognises… believes… is encouraged to…

Presentations Mock exams…

Speaking assessment criteria To be awarded a Pass, Merit or Distinction a Learner must – • be audible, and • use Spoken Standard English which, for the purposes of the spoken language assessment, means that a Learner must generally use language appropriate to the formal setting of the presentation.

Independent work: