1. February English Exam
Paris Anthology

2. Homework due, Wednesday
To improve, we will plan together in today’s lesson. for homework, you will rewrite your exam answers into an A-Grade response!
Homework due, Wednesday

3. First let’s correct some common errors from last week.
Explain the difference to a partner between:
A simile
A sentence literally stating that two things are similar.
Informal language
Colloquial language
Formal language
Complex language
This
These
A question/ an interrogative question
A rhetorical question
First let’s correct some common errors from last week.

4. Question 1, Paper 2: Anthology Paris
The Anthology Paris is worth the most marks of all AS texts.
At AS level, both questions on Paper 2 are based on the Anthology Paris and are worth 50% of all marks.
Next year, at A-level, Q1 of Paper 1 is on the Anthology Paris and is worth 40% of marks available for AS texts.

5. 40 marks available AS Level: A01: linguistic terminology, 10 marks
A03: context, 20 marks
A04: 10 marks
A-Level:
A01: linguistic terminology, 15 marks
A03: context, 15 marks

6. February exam: AS Paper 2, Question 1
Text A: ‘Travelling to Paris with a grandchild’, Gransnet forum
Text B: ‘Mike and Sophia’, Visiting Paris

7. Plan for question 1 Firstly: Context A03 (then add comparisons A04).
Secondly: Language A01 (then add comparisons A04).

8. Context: Genre Text A Text B Website forum with set conventions:
Layout features (graphology)
Informal, polite language
Text B
Conversation/dialogue
Discourse features
Aspects of pragmatics

9. Context: Mode Text A Text B Written Mode online interaction
Easy access to internet (or difficulties for grandparents, suggests cooler more tech-savy audience)
Errors (Jane Ann submitted msg twice)
Capacity to self correct/add info (eg HildaW name of boat added in second msg)
Wide audience= richer resource pool
Text B
Spoken
Spontaneous and temporal =discourse features
Private, personal conversation= honest, unaccountable (Mike may not repeat stories of pickpockets he has no experience of)
open and trusting due to limited, known audience

10. Context: Purpose Text A Text B
Request (Jane Ann) and offer advice (Tegan, HildaW)
Recommend (boat, film)
Warn (pickpockets)
Text B
Share experiences positive (romance of the Sacre- Cour) and negative (danger of muggings)
Warn OR entertain via tellability

11. Context: Audience Text A Text B Visitors to Paris (tourists)
Grandparents or carers of children
International: www
Multi-person interaction
Strangers= pragmatics (politeness strategies)
Text B
Visitors to Paris (tourists)
Limited audience of two people= direct address, open and trusting tone due to personally known audience
Transcript= reproduction of conversation in written mode for a wider audience (A-level students)

12. What comparisons can you make?
Similarities
Genre: interactive conversations, more than one contributor
Audience: tourists
Purpose: advise ( both address +ve and –ve aspects of Paris). Shared topic of pickpocketing to meet purpose (selectivity).
Mode: spontaneity (later error correction not typical of written mode)
Differences
Mode of communication
Audience: Text A specifically for carers of children but wide audience due to internet accessibility, text B may have wider appeal wider but limited audience due to mode

13. Graphology: typography, layout, use of pause/bold in transcript
Lexis: Lexical choices: register, narrative voice
Discourse features: fillers, ellipsis, false starts, interruptions, speaker support (solicit and appreciation)
Grammar: verb tenses, lack of correct structure
Pragmatics: politeness strategies, tone, tellability
Phonetics: alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance
Language A01: Terminology There are six language levels. Which ones can you apply? Discuss with a partner, finding examples through which you can explain meaning in these texts.

14. Language A01: Terminology
Remember to explain every point/ example of terminology in relation to the specific text you are analysing and not in general terms.
Show your understanding and explain the reasoning behind your interpretation.

15. What comparisons can you make?
Similarities
Differences