1. Grammar
AS Language

2. Pre-modification
Where speakers and writers choose to place information in a grammatical sequence can have an effect on the audience.
When you give descriptive and circumstantial information before using the noun you are writing about is known as pre-modification. For example: The black and white dog ate a bone.
Handsome and underpaid Mr Winters...
Give your own example!
Pre-modification is often used to set the scene or create anticipation. It is often used in newspaper writing as well, tabloid journalists are particularly fond of this, for example:
When asked about his intellectual capacity, jobless layabout Mr Winters said yesterday: “Buh? ERRRR? Guh!”
Why do they like to premodify?
If premodification is over done it becomes long winded. Try to pre-modify a sentence in a long winded way!

3. Post-Modification
Post-modification means supplying descriptive and circumstantial information after the noun. For example: “The dog ate the bone, which was absolutely delicious.”
The dog, a vicious chihuaha savaged Mr Winters
Now create your own examples!
Mr Winters
Prince Henry’s
Mr Freeman
A cat

4. Lexis
Lexis is the technical term for vocabulary. Lexical choices can be formal or informal, complex or simple depending on the audience, purpose and the person producing the text.
Can you think of any examples?
Semantic field
Words that are from a particular subject can be grouped together in what is known as the semantic or lexical field. The semantic field helps to make a text cohesive and create a pattern of meaning within a text. For example if you were reading about cars you would expect to find words to do with that subject in the text. Sometimes writers borrow from other semantic fields to create effects. For example a football report may use the semantic field of war to describe a particularly brutal match.
List as many words as you can from the semantic field of surfing or makeup.
Gnarly dudes!!!!!!!

5. Derren Winters Mind Games
Derren Winters can read your mind!!!! (If you have one!)
If he can’t read it then perhaps you don’t have a mind????!!!!

6. Think of a colour..... Think of an angry colour:
The colour you were thinking of was RED!!!
Think of a cold colour:
BLUE!!!
Think of a sad colour:
Black!!!!
Think of colour to do with nature:
Green!!!!
Am I messing with your minds?????? Ha ha ha! Satan I owe you one!!!!

7. Lexis: Semantics
Denotation: The dictionary definition of a word Connotation: The things we associate with a word. Semantic field: words that are linked to a particular topic

8. Connotations
What are the differences between the connotations of these synonyms?
House/home/pad/
Fat/plump/big-boned/obese
Young person/youth/adolescent
Can you think of any of your own examples?

9. Challenge....
Write down as many new terms and meanings as you can without looking at your notes!