What are the rules of phone conversations?

Start:
Answer with a greeting- Hello etc.
Pleasantaries

Middle:
Take turns
The middle of the conversation is relative to who you are speaking to.

End:
You signal the end of the conversation
Say good bye

Ending a conversation:

1) Pre-closing conversations
2) Metatalk- talk that draws attention to the talk itself. 'Well i cant stand around talking all day'
3)Phatic talk
4) Valedictions

Things that affect a conversation:

• Politeness strategies


• Gendre


• Cultural expectations


• New technologies

on Fridays lesson sir talked about our second coursework. for our second piece we cant have it similar to our first one so for example if for my first coursework was:

Genre: novel

Audience: children

Purpose: inform

Subject: World War 2 your second piece has to have a completely different genre, audience, purpose and subject. This is to show the examiner you have the skills to write in different styles.

Types of writing

• Argue, persuade, advise
• Argue persuade advise
• Analyse, review, comment
• inform, explain describe
• Explore, imagine, entertain

Coursework deadline - Tuesday 1st November...

That's Tuesday after half term. No excuses.

Contents
I am expecting you to hand in your completed coursework folder with a coversheet ticking off the contents. This is what you need to include:
Proposal Form
Planning notes
Style models
Checklist
Research
Draft
Final version
Commentary
Bibliography

Help with commentary
There is no “right” way to do a commentary; it just needs to have the relevant information to describe your coursework. To follow is a list of the sorts of things you could do but it is by no means exhaustive and should not be followed as a template.

Why did you decide to do that subject for your coursework? Why is the title important? How have you used phonological, graphology, lexis, semantics, syntax, etc., to highlight your genre, audience and purpose? What are the most significant features? Explain your choice of style model. How much topic research did you do? Is there anything you changed?

Drafting process

Types of sentences-

Declarative sentence: a statement
Interrogative sentence: a question
Imperative sentence: a command
Exclamotory sentence: factual exclamation

Other glossary- deviations of Standard English

Sociolect: social grouping
Dialect: geography grouping
Ideolect: an individual's word use
Accent: the way you pronounce it

More words-

Lexis: words used
Lexical field: groups of words which share semantic value
Register: level of formality
Minor sentence: context dependent sentence which consist of minimal wording.

We annotated the opening of hard times written by charles dickens and had to find lexical features, phonological features, grammatical features and sematic features.

During our last lesson we started of completing the starter which was a slight run through of different types of adjectives (for example numeral adjectives, possessive adjectives, ect). We then moved on to browsing through the coursework process, once again very briefly.

Once finishing, we were set on task to annotate two different editorial texts, these annotations had to highlight various types of writing skills such as the Rule of three, Rhetorical questions, Nouns ect. The aim of this task was that it was to help us with comparing styles models and noticing the differences and similarities between them to figure/discover which of those would be a useful addition to our desired coursework option. The texts that were given to us were real life interviews that had been transcribed and written out in the form of an editorial, for example one of the texts that was named “We need to talk about Kevin”. We also watch a very quite clip about the editorial.

To give us further aid whilst completing our coursework and aiming to achieve a high grade, Mr.Chatterly, with the help of the class, created a checklist which included various elements that we may chose to include when writing out our editorials.

Mr.Chatterly also handed out new English Language text books today. These books include many different tips to help us achieve a great result when completing the coursework. As for homework, this lesson we were told to finish annotating the editorial texts that was given to us.

Interview Transcribing

In order for our last lesson to have proceeded the way Mr.Chatterley had planned we had to complete our homework which was, we had to pair up and come up with at least 5 questions in order for our interviews to have taken place successfully.

When first arriving at the lesson, we had to go through a brief starter practicing nouns, then we got into our pairs (for example, me an Lucy), then Mr.Chatterley went around and gave us our mini recorders however some of us used our phones. We were then given the priority to either stay within the classroom or go outside to the year seven home base to prevent any distractions whilst recording. Our recordings had to last for at least 5 minutes given by Mr.Chatterly's orders.

Once completing the recordings we were then called back in into the classrooms and then was asked to transcribe our script word for word. When that was finished after a good 20 minutes, Mr.Chatterley told us our homework and described it part by part.

Homework

Read a newspaper (Ideally the Times, the Guardian, or the Independent) to come up with an editorial, google Guy Browning 'how to' to gain ideas of our new task coming next lesson to use the same format as Guy Browning with a specific hated TV advert and secondly our other piece of homework was to changed the transcript written into a Newspaper article similar to the Jarvis Cocker persuasive text / any others you find while reading the weekend newspapers. Due 27th tuesday

Jamila :D

In today’s lesson...

We first started with a recap of 'NOUNS'.
There are four different types of nouns, which you need to learn and know by heart.

1) Common- Something that you can touch, e.g. a book, window and computer and many more..
2) Proper- A name - something that starts with a capital letter, e.g. London Academy, Katie..
3) Abstract- Something in which cannot be touched, e.g. Feelings, emotions and God..
4) Collective - A group, e.g. Family, team and class..

Then we had to create a proposal form for our homework - a persuasive text.
Genre:
Audience:
Subject:
Purpose:

1.What style model(s) do you intend to use.
2.Have you created a check-list of the main style features you intend to include.
3.What research do you intend to carry out? What are your sources?

-After we moved on to different types of persuasive devices that we can use in our coursework.

Anaphora - Deliberate repetition of word o t phrase at the beginning of successive sentences, e.g. "We shall" (Churchill), I have a dream (Dr MLK).
Anastrophe - Deliberate use of word or phrase at end of successive sentences, e.g. without warning from FDR's speech.
Hyperbole - Exaggeration for effect, e.g. "There were millions of students in the room".
Tautology - Repetition of the same sense of words. "Unexpected Raid"

What are the AO'S for this course? AO1: Apply a range of linguistic methods (5% of AS) AO2: Understanding how a text works (5% of AS) AO3: Analyse and Evaluate the influence of the context (5% of AS) AO4: The quality of you text (25% of AS

Coursework Process
We then discussed on the plan that we should create for our coursework. Plan your work out , then find the Style model for your coursework , after make sure you create a 'Check List', also do all your research and find out about the topic you will be writing about, the coursework will then be sent to Mr Chatterley, he will talk to you about what you will be needing to fix up and change -Draft-,Bibliography and last but not least Commentary.

*Brainstorm*Notes/ deas*
Why before and why are you still sticking with the same idea.
*Gather information on what you will be writing about By writing this up it will show that you thought about the process carefully.

>We then had to work in twos - one being the interviewer and the other one the interviewee- We then had to select a topic that we had to talk about. E.g. a doctor’s appointment or first day of school. After write the interview down on paper and be ready for the next lesson. Finally, we were then told to create an interview that will be recorded the next lesson.