AS English Language Holiday Homework
We’d like you to
use your Language Blog to create a virtual scrapbook of language in action.
You need to collect a series of varied and interesting
examples of language in the daily world and upload them to your blog. See our
example blog for the different ways you could approach this!
You must annotate
each text you include. Use these questions to help you.
• Who
is the audience in terms of gender, age and interests? How does that influence
the text?
• What
are the purpose(s)? E.g. To persuade, inform, entertain, instruct. How does
that influence how the text is written?
• What
is the format? Layout? How have images been used?
• What
aspects of language stand out to you? How
does this text achieve its purpose? You might look at things like: use of
verbs, complex sentences, use of adjectives, slogans, persuasive techniques,
pronouns.
You also need to make sure
that at least one of your texts is SPOKEN
in nature. E.g. a transcript of a short
conversation, a text message which does not fit expectations for standard
written English – this could be an excerpt from a script, a link to a
YouTube video with your thoughts written up on the blog, or an example of your
own transcription.
You should also
comment on one of these questions for each of your texts:
• How
has technology influenced this text?
• Has
the gender of the audience or
producer influence the text?
• How
does this text or speaker exert power?
We also want you to
comment on other blogs!
Using our page ‘Links to Student Blogs’, we’d like you to
make FIVE COMMENTS on the texts that
other people have uploaded. Perhaps you’ve seen a language feature in their
text that’s worth highlighting, or you’d like to comment further on how their
text appeals to their audience. Get commenting!
Minimum 15 texts with detailed
annotations – use your imagination and collect real data (or language!) from
the world around you.
This should be uploaded onto your blog
as a series of posts before your first lesson in September.
