Mr Sellick´s Year 11 English Blog: octubre 2014

jueves, 30 de octubre de 2014

Review Writing

Please work through these vocab lists in preparation for our Review of Black Mirror

Quizlet - Review vocab

Film review vocab

Black Mirror Expressions 1

Black Mirror Expressions 2

viernes, 24 de octubre de 2014

HOMEWORK FOR MONDAY

Read the Article on page 32.

Complete exercises 3,4 and 5.

For the ´Discuss in small groups´activity, you should write down your own ideas.

ARTICLE WRITING - WRITING EXAM

Features of an article

•Eye-catching heading

•Develop an idea or point of view (could be balanced or one-sided)

•Express your personal opinions but also include facts

•Be entertaining, lively and engaging

•Conversational style to relate to reader

•Use personal pronouns to include the reader (you, your, we, our)

•Can use anecdotes, descriptions, reported speech

•Use adverbials (clearly/in fact/without a doubt/ undoubtedly) to help reader to follow your argument

Useful vocab

Phrases to introduce facts

•People (sometimes) claim that … but I feel that ...

•It is often said/argued that ... However, it seems to me that ...

•It is a fact that ...

•Over the past few months/years, it seems that …

•Recently, we have all become concerned that …

•Nowadays, we are all realising that ...

•In the past, people used to …, but now ...

•These days, it seems that ….

To expand sentences, use:

•Which, who, where, whose

•In which case, which may require, which would mean, where we could, who would be

able to, which would enable us to, whose help has enabled us to

•Translating para = in order to, to, so that, enabling

Connectives to start sentences:

•Despite / In spite of (gerund, that fact that, noun/pronoun)

•However,… (yet can also be used to mean however to link sentences)

•Whereas / Although (within a sentence with two separate clauses)

•In addition to this... Furthermore… Moreover…

Abverbs to make your argument clear

•Obviously/Clearly

•Undoubtedly

•Without a doubt/ Undoubtedly

•Needless to say

•Firstly/Secondly/Thirdly/Finally

Use conditional tenses

• If you (present), you could / it would

•3rd conditional (regrets) = If there had been, it would have________

•Had we known that… we could have been able to ….

•If only (the government would … , there was), there would be …

Anticipating the counter argument

•According to some people, … However, I think that …

•Some may argue that … whereas I firmly believe that …

•It can be argued that …

•Although I agree that … I disagree that ..

Sequencing (for anecdotes)

•At first / To start with/In the beginning, ...

•Then/Next/After that, ...

•Finally/In the end, ...

•At last, ...

Simultaneous events

•Meanwhile/In the meantime,

•In the middle of all this, ...

•During all this time, ..

Sudden or unexpected events (anecdotes)

•Out of the blue, ...

•Without any warning, ...

Rapid events

•As quick as a flash, ...

•In a matter of seconds/minutes, ...

•In no time at all, ...

•In retrospect, ...

•With the benefit of hindsight, …

Black Mirror Comprehension questions

Please complete these in detail, full sentences and with well developed ideas.

Your exam next week will incorporate some of the main themes from Black Mirror

1) What does Liam have implanted in his neck? What does it do?

2) Why does Liam replay the work meeting? What is he worried about?

3) What are the disadvantages of the memory grain?

4) Why does one woman at the dinner party not have a grain?

5) How do the people at the dinner party react to this woman having no grain?

6) In what ways does the grain affect Liam and his wife´s relationship?

7) What does Liam discover thanks to his wife´s grain?

8) What are the advantages and disadvantages of a grain?

9) How does the episode end? What does the end of the episode suggest about the effects of the grain?

10) Do you think this type of technological development will happen in your life time?

lunes, 20 de octubre de 2014

Writing exam preparation...

Introduction: State the topic and your opinion
Suggested phrases: Nowadays/ recently/ A large number of people/
Body 1: State one reason and support it
Opinion: Firstly/in the first place/ to begin with/ to start with
To my mind/ It is my firm opinion-conviction that/ It seems to me/ It strikes me that/ I am inclined to believe that.
Support: This would definitely…. / Consequently/ As a result/
Body 2: State another reason and support it
To add points: Moreover/ What’s more/ In addition/Apart from this/ Not to mention the fact that/ furthermore.
Body 3: State arguments against your opinion. (opt)
However/on the other hand/ It can be argued that/as opposed to the above ideas
Conclusion: Re-state your opinion clearly.
Suggested phrases: In conclusion/on balance/ in a nutshell/ All points considered/ Taking everything into account/consideration/