1. Explorers or…
Saturday, 24 November 2018
Jonathan Peel SGS 2012

2. AOs for Language papers
AO2 Reading
All students will be required to demonstrate an ability to:
(i) read and understand texts with insight and engagement
(ii) develop and sustain interpretations of writers’ ideas and perspectives
(iii) understand and make some evaluation of how writers use linguistic and
structural devices to achieve their effects.
AO3 Writing
(i) communicate clearly and appropriately, using and adapting forms for different
readers and purposes
(ii) organise ideas into sentences, paragraphs and whole texts using a variety of
linguistic and structural features
(iii) use a range of sentence structures effectively, with accurate punctuation and
spelling.
(Edexcel language specification, p20)
Jonathan Peel SGS 2012

3. Before we start:
Share the words you do not understand with a neighbour.
Ensure you all understand every word in the article.
Jonathan Peel SGS 2012

4. Summary skills In the Autumn you learned to summarise.
Using only facts, list the key features of this article for a summary.
Boys messing about..docx My version of a 150 word summary. How many of these points did you get?
Which AOs have you just hit?
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5. CONNOTATION
Look at the headline: Which words influence the reader into thinking that this is not a story of brave human endeavour?
WHY?
What do these words CONNOTE?
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6. NEGATIVE CONNOTATION
The passage has many similar examples of language chosen for negative connotation.
In your groups you will be allocated a few paragraphs to mine for information.
Make a table – 15 minutes maximum.
paragraph
word
Effect and reason
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7. CAROUSEL
1 from each group will now move and feedback findings to a second group. You will have 5 minutes
And another…
HWK: ensure you have got through the whole passage and listed the emotive words…
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8. Fact and Opinion
How do you tell the difference? What words (often verbs) do you notice in the passage that connote opinion?
What of these:
“ Justin Bieber is a talentless dwarf”
“ I think Justin Bieber is a talentless dwarf”
Always look for opinion presented as fact.
Jonathan Peel SGS 2012

9. Look again at the passage
Look at “your” paragraphs for fact or opinion and feedback your response.
Label the paragraphs.
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10. To sum up…
What sort of language commonly presents opinion in a passage like this?
“How is language used to influence the reader in a media passage?”
Which AOs do you use to write an answer to this question?
Jonathan Peel SGS 2012