1. 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

2. What do you want to achieve today?

3. 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]

4. SHEDSS – Health and Safety

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

6. 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’.

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

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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…

11. Presentations Mock exams…

12. 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.

13. Independent work: